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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 When There's Nowhere Else to Run
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'In one way or another, isn't everyone on the run?

'A survivor of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires takes asylum with old friends in the Dandenong Ranges. An editor-in-chief drives his sister halfway around the country to an east-coast rehabilitation clinic. A single mother flies to Perth with her autistic son for one last holiday. A father at the end of his tether tries to survive the chaos of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. A group of young friends hire a luxury beach house in the final weeks of one of their lives. A postman hits a pedestrian and drives off into the night.

'When There's Nowhere Else to Run is a collection of stories about people who find their lives unravelling. They are teachers, lawyers, nurses, firemen, chefs, gamblers, war veterans, hard drinkers, adulterers, widows and romantics. Seeking refuge all across the country, from the wheat belt of Western Australia, the limestone desert of South Australia, the sugarcane towns of Queensland, the hinterland of New South Wales to the coastline of Victoria, they discover that no matter how many thousands of kilometres they put between themselves and their transgressions, sometimes there's nowhere else to run. (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For L.D. and my family.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2015 .
      image of person or book cover 8391742004337260360.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 245p.
      Note/s:
      • Published April 2015
      ISBN: 9781760112332

Other Formats

  • Also large print.
  • Also dyslexic edition

Works about this Work

The Big Short Susan Wyndham , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 May 2016; (p. 8)
Restless Fictions Sophia Barnes , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2015;

— Review of Fever of Animals Miles Allinson , 2015 single work novel ; When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton , 2015 selected work short story ; The Promise Seed Cass Moriarty , 2015 single work novel
More Vogel Verve Laurie Steed , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 373 2015; (p. 59)

— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton , 2015 selected work short story
Well Read Margot Lloyd , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 July 2015; (p. 32)

— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton , 2015 selected work short story ; Close to Home Robin Barker , 2015 selected work short story
Everyday People in Peril Find a Voice of Empathy Kalinda Ashton , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 June 2015; (p. 33) The Saturday Age , 27-28 June 2015; (p. 33)

— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton , 2015 selected work short story
Less Is More in Depicting the Torn Bits of Ordinary Lives James McNamara , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 May 2015; (p. 16-17)

— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton , 2015 selected work short story
Everyday People in Peril Find a Voice of Empathy Kalinda Ashton , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 June 2015; (p. 33) The Saturday Age , 27-28 June 2015; (p. 33)

— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton , 2015 selected work short story
Well Read Margot Lloyd , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 July 2015; (p. 32)

— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton , 2015 selected work short story ; Close to Home Robin Barker , 2015 selected work short story
More Vogel Verve Laurie Steed , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 373 2015; (p. 59)

— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton , 2015 selected work short story
Restless Fictions Sophia Barnes , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2015;

— Review of Fever of Animals Miles Allinson , 2015 single work novel ; When There's Nowhere Else to Run Murray Middleton , 2015 selected work short story ; The Promise Seed Cass Moriarty , 2015 single work novel
Melbourne Author Keeps It Short to Achieve Goal Melanie Kembrey , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 April 2015; (p. 5)
The Big Short Susan Wyndham , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 May 2016; (p. 8)
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