Christopher has twice won the Miles Franklin Award and is an Academy Award-nominated Screenwriter. As in The Year of Living Dangerously, Christopher shows how the personal and political can be deeply interwoven in his new book, The Memory Room. This may appear to resemble a le Carre-style espionage thriller, and its plot certainly moves at thriller-like pace. But, behind all the action lies something more profound: an intense psychological portrait of one who chooses to spy. In fact, there is more than one spy in this absorbing novel, and a number of other memorable characters, whose complex entanglements are set against beautifully drawn landscapes in Tasmania, China and Canberra. This is a rare opportunity.

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