Then a man he knew murdered a boy he also knew. The murderer randomly killed eight strangers - variously shooting, strangling, stabbing, bludgeoning and hacking his victims and running them down with cars - and innocent Perth was changed forever.
Opening in a small village on the Chinese-Russian border under Japanese occupation in the final days of World War Two, White Gardenia tells the story of a White Russian mother and daughter whose lives are intersected by history.
From the glamorous nightclubs of Shanghai to the harshness of the Siberian wasteland, from a desolate island in the South China Sea to a new life in postwar Australia, and finally to Cold War Moscow, White Gardenia sweeps across cultures and continents.
This popular dog – who has starred in eleven story collections and two joke collections to date – channels his crazy adventures and antics to Duncan Ball, a Sydney scientist turned author.
Imagine a gaggle of little children sitting down to dinner with their mother when suddenly everything goes black. You can’t see in front of you but you know you must hide. Daddy’s home. He’s turned off the power – and he’s coming for you, any one of you.
