Julienne Van Loon: 3 books

Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2004. Diana Kooper runs from a car crash in the heart of Sydney, scarcely looking back, leaving her best friend, Nicole, slumped and bloody in the damaged vehicle. After hitching a ride to the far west of New South Wales, Diana takes a...

Full of suspense, Harmless, is the tightly woven story of eight year old Amanda, whose father is in prison, and Rattuwat, a Thai man burying his daughter in a strange land. Abandoning their broken-down car on the way to the prison's visiting hour, Amanda and Rattuwat venture into the trackless scrub...

This novella is set across the course of a single in the semi - urban farmland in Perth's outer eastern suburbs. It is the tightly woven story of 8 year old Amanda, her father Dave (locked up in nearby Acacia Prison), Ant (Dave's son), Rua (a Thai bride and Dave's lover, who has just died from an AIDS...