Dust Off the Bones

Paul Howarth

• Publisher: ONE
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781911590538
• eBook ISBN:
  9781911590545
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

The Times Historical Book of the Month ''Vivid, page-turning [and] unlike anything else you'll read this year. Do not miss it' Gabriel Bergmoser, author of The Hunted Even in the vast outback, the past can't stay buried forever Death follows young Tommy McBride everywhere. Five years ago his family was murdered, and now a freak accident sends him fleeing into the wilderness of the Australian outback with a man lying dead in his wake. But Tommy is haunted by even worse - as children, he and his brother Billy witnessed the state-sanctioned massacre of the Indigenous Kurrong people by the ruthless Native Police Inspector Noone, and they haven't seen each other since. When an official inquiry is launched into the massacre, the successful life that Billy has built for himself comes under threat. He sets off in search of his long lost brother, but isn't the only one on Tommy's trail?Inspector Noone is looking for him too, and will do anything to stop the truth from coming to light.

Table of contents

• PRAISE
• TITLE PAGE
• DEDICATION
• EPIGRAPH
• CONTENTS
• PROLOGUE · 1885: Central Queensland, Australia
• PART I · 1890: Five years later
• PART II · 1897: Seven years later
• PART III · 1906: Nine years later
• EPILOGUE · 1908: Gippsland, Victoria
• AUTHOR’S NOTE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• AVAILABLE AND COMING SOON FROM
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT