Brendan Lawley Brendan Lawley i(11048412 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Writer and musician.

In 2017, Brendan Lawley was based in Melbourne.

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y separately published work icon Bonesland Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2018 12265845 2018 single work novel young adult

'As soon as I finish school I’ll have the car packed. I’ll thunder past the dull cardboard boxes that Banarang calls shops, I’ll skim over the Bridge Street potholes without feeling a bump and I’ll fly up the freeway, bound for the city and civilisation.

Bones Carter is done with Banarang and his backwater existence. There’s not much to do but hang out with his friends, make bad rap music and count down the days until the end of school and the beginning of his new life in the city.

Then Naya comes to town. Brilliant, black and beautiful, she wants to change the world. She thinks Bones is a well of untapped potential. Bones thinks she’s delusional—but she makes him feel more hopeful than he has in a long time.

Bonesland is a wild ride through the small-town agonies of adolescence, packed with sex, drugs, love and hip-hop.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2019 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Young Adult Book
2017 shortlisted Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing
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