What would make a soldier betray his country?
In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that should have killed them both consigns them instead to the same military hospital.
Mahmoud is a Sufi. A whirling dervish, he says, of the Mevlevi order. He tells David stories. Of arriving in London with a pocketful of dried apricots. Of Majnun, the man mad for love, and of the saint who flew to paradise on a lion skin. You are God, we are all gods, Mahmoud tells David; and a bond grows between them.
A bond so strong that David will betray his country for his friend.
Stephen Daisley’s astonishing debut novel is a story of war and of love—how each changes everything, forever. Evoking horror and beauty and a profound sense of the possibility of transformation, Traitor is that rarest of things: a work of fiction that will transport the reader, heart and soul, into another realm.
Traitor
Traitor
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Fiction.
What would make a soldier betray his country?
In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s... Buy or find out more →
Traitor
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
What would make a soldier betray his country?
In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that shoul... Buy or find out more →
Stephen Daisley
Traitor
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2011 Prime Minister's Award for Fiction.
What would make a soldier betray his country?
In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s... Buy or find out more →
Traitor
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
What would make a soldier betray his country?
In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that shoul... Buy or find out more →
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Night Street
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An intensely satisfying novel that celebrates the short richly lived life of Australian artist, Clarice Beckett.
Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
Night Street is the passionate story of a young pain... Buy or find out more →
Having Cried Wolf
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When it comes to looking back over his life, Archie Fliess has got some understanding to do. So begins a sprawling reflection on Archie's life during the early twentieth century, starting the day the fortunes of Archie a... Buy or find out more →
Traitor
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
What would make a soldier betray his country?
In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy’s life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that shoul... Buy or find out more →
Utopian Man
$23.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An exquisite historical novel about a remarkable man who chose his own path, charming and scandalising others in equal measure.
Co-winner of the 2009 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.
'Really impressive, vivid and enjoyab... Buy or find out more →
The Body In The Clouds
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What if you looked up and out of the corner of your eye you saw something so marvellous, so extraordinary, that it transformed time and space forever? An extraordinary, luminous debut novel that weaves together three liv... Buy or find out more →