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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 The Signal Line
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'Winner of the Unpublished Manuscript Prize, Tasmanian Premier's Literary Awards

'Brothers Geo and Wes are testing their relationship now that their parents have passed away. Geo and Wes rarely agree on anything, especially not the sale of the Hobart family home. Geo needs the money to finance his musical career in Italy. For Wes the house represents the memory of their father, and what it means to live an honest, working life.

'But then a ghost train appears in Hobart, often on the tram tracks that once existed, along with the Swedish man who has been pursuing it for 40 years.

'Everyone it seems is chasing their dreams. Or are they running from the truth?

'The Signal Line is a warm-hearted, unforgettable novel about what we are all searching for, even when our personal dreams and aspirations have collapsed: love and acceptance.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Author's note: for Yvonne

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2022 .
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      Extent: 304p.
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      • Published 1st May 2022
      ISBN: 9781925760941

Works about this Work

Book Review : The Signal Line, Brendan Colley Craig Buchanan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , May 2022;

— Review of The Signal Line Brendan Colley , 2022 single work novel

'An award-winning novel that defies easy categorisation.'

[Review] The Signal Line Damien Lawardorn , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 154 2022;

— Review of The Signal Line Brendan Colley , 2022 single work novel
Dreams and Ghost Trains : Brendan Colley’s Big-hearted First Novel Naama Grey-Smith , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 443 2022; (p. 29)

— Review of The Signal Line Brendan Colley , 2022 single work novel

'Winner of the University of Tasmania Prize for best new unpublished work in the 2019 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes, The Signal Line is Brendan Colley’s first book. As it happens, my review copy arrived just as I launched into Rhett Davis’s Hovering (2022). Although fundamentally different, both novels open with a fraught return to a family home and a resident resentful sibling. Both protagonists have built a new life in Europe, but where Hovering suggests the possible remaking of the old house into some version of home, The Signal Line seeks to relinquish it.' (Introduction)

Dreams and Ghost Trains : Brendan Colley’s Big-hearted First Novel Naama Grey-Smith , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 443 2022; (p. 29)

— Review of The Signal Line Brendan Colley , 2022 single work novel

'Winner of the University of Tasmania Prize for best new unpublished work in the 2019 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes, The Signal Line is Brendan Colley’s first book. As it happens, my review copy arrived just as I launched into Rhett Davis’s Hovering (2022). Although fundamentally different, both novels open with a fraught return to a family home and a resident resentful sibling. Both protagonists have built a new life in Europe, but where Hovering suggests the possible remaking of the old house into some version of home, The Signal Line seeks to relinquish it.' (Introduction)

[Review] The Signal Line Damien Lawardorn , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 154 2022;

— Review of The Signal Line Brendan Colley , 2022 single work novel
Book Review : The Signal Line, Brendan Colley Craig Buchanan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , May 2022;

— Review of The Signal Line Brendan Colley , 2022 single work novel

'An award-winning novel that defies easy categorisation.'

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