Cirrus@Austlit

'Nobody really knows what fate awaits us when we die. Things might be quite different to what we've been led to believe or come to expect.

'Seventeen-year-old Andy wants so badly to know what happens when he dies that he can't wait to die from natural causes to find out. With help from his mate Wombat he arranges to have a near-death-experience in the local pool. But things don't work out as planned and Andy embarks on the longest journey of all.

'Andy's journey into the After-life explodes a few myths and gives the reader a glimpse of what it could really be like.' (Publication summary)

'The story of a simple, native-born Australian who said no to British oppression, and fought it in the only way he knew how. Captain Thunderbolt was a political dissident at a time when that 'crime' was punishable by a Crown bullet and forced exile to the historical and social wilderness.' (Publication summary)

'In the prison in Sarah Sweet's backyard, drunks get locked up for the night and sing beautiful songs through the bars. Behind the prison, there's a paddock full of horses waiting to be broken by her dad, the best horse breaker in Boolaroo. Mal Sweet can break anything, except Sarah. She's a champion, stronger than anyone. She won't be broken. Even if it means destroying those closest to her.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.