The Hiding Place by Kate Mildenhall

The Hiding Place by Kate MildenhallTheyre good people. Why shouldnt they get what they deserve? When Lou sees an ad for a long abandoned mining town up for sale, it doesnt take her long to convince her sister and their oldest friends to go in on the idyllic property buried in the bush a place where the four families can hide away on weekends, get back to nature and unstick the kids from their screens. But things start to go wrong before they even arrive for their first camping trip a

and festive spirit

he met the only people who truly shared his worldview: the First Nations of northern and central Australia

where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened with destruction by gold-mining

a traumatic event crystallises the selves into something more powerful

In recognition

'A real-life story of the pioneering days of the top End that out-adventures anything fiction writers could hope to produce

A dead space between two walls

abandoning their strictures against violence

bearing a warning from Lirael's long-dead mother about the Witch With No Face

and other languages from the Daly River area

Lewis traces their legacies

You're off and away