Last Train to Menindee dystopian and deeply heartfelt memoir of

and deeply heartfelt memoir of fathers and sons

A legacy that binds them for generations

this contemporary fiction celebrates resilience

WINNER: Gold Rush by Zachary Pryor (Open Category)

Caught between tradition and progress

Last Train to Menindee dystopian and deeply heartfelt memoir ofGenre: Outback Memoir There's solace in asylum, but the voices never rest. When a half submerged body appears at Menindee Lakes, a mother overwhelmed by the trauma of her youngest sons schizophrenia insists police abandon further enquiry. Thirteen years later, her only remaining son travels from Queensland to outback Menindee on the banks of the Darling River. Here, he unfolds a past inextricably tied to the chaos of his younger brother's life journey