Boy Swallows Universe

Book Description:

Australia's favourite novel, now a major Netflix series, starring Travis Fimmel, Simon Baker, Phoebe Tonkin, Bryan Brown and Anthony La Paglia.

The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, winner of a record four Australian Book Industry Awards in 2019, including the prestigious Book of the Year Award, and winner of the 2019 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Brisbane, 1985: A lost father, a mute brother, a junkie mum, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli Bell's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart and understand what it means to be a good man, but fate keeps throwing obstacles in his way - not the least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer.

But now Eli's life is going to get a whole lot more serious: he's about to meet the father he doesn't remember, break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day to rescue his mum, come face to face with the criminals who tore his world apart, and fall in love with the girl of his dreams.

A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe is heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating.

Awards:

• 2019 ABIA Book of the Year Award, Winner
• 2019 Indie Book Award, Winner
• 2019 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner
• 2019 People's Choice Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner
• MUD Literary Prize 2019, Winner
• 2019 ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Winner
• 2019 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, Winner
• 2019 ABIA Audiobook of the Year, Winner
• 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Longlisted
• 2019 Colin Roderick Award, shortlist

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