Cirrus@Austlit

'It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing the stifling town of Genoralup to try to lose himself in South Africa at the height of apartheid. But the past has a way of catching up with you, and soon Jack is running again, this time to a kibbutz in Israel.

'In the course of a lifetime, Jack will travel far, always caught between fleeing from and seeking those things he needs- a mother's precious gift, a lover in a time of war, the loss of a child, a kind and steady woman.

'And, across time and across continents, old Jack Muir will remember those who helped him become a decent man, a better father and a friend.'   (Publication summary)

'Smart and feisty friends from different backgrounds, the Amity Kids go all out to meet any challenge that comes their way. In Kidnapped! they face their biggest challenge yet, going head to head with criminals and attempting a dangerous rescue. Kids are smarter than adults--are they braver, too?' (Source: Publisher's blurb)

'Smart and feisty friends from different backgrounds, the Amity Kids go all out to meet any challenge that comes their way. In Disturbing the Peace, they get angry about drivers who treat local roads like a Formula 1 track, and decide to take action. It’s a quest that again proves that kids are smarter than adults!' (Source: Publisher's blurb)

'In the boarding house it doesn't matter who hit you first, or if they miss-hit, you have to get them back. It's kid against kid, dog against dog. We all have rabies. We all have pinks disease. We're all foaming at the mouth. Tit for tat, the strong rule the weak, the weak cry. Only those who can find the mean streak in them survive. I'm a survivor. Briggsy taught me that. If you're weak, unspeakable things happen to you. The bastards won't get me.

It is the 1960s in Perth, Western Australia. For Thomas Muir - cool and steady - life is a thing that goes on outside him. But for his brother, hot-headed Jack - believer in honesty and justice - life must be wrestled to be understood.

Jack Muir's years of survival and his coming of age in a boys' boarding school are sharply revealed in this dislocated memoir. Jack's story is funny and raw. It will strike a nerve in those who were there - and in anyone who has ever asked how it is that one becomes a man.' (Publisher's blurb)

'Smart and feisty friends from different backgrounds, the Amity Kids go all out to meet any challenge that comes their way. In Magpie Mischief, they are determined to prevent an act of environmental vandalism--no matter what it takes. It's a quest that might just prove that kids are smarter than adults!' (Source: Trove)