When Ilias arrives in Australia from Greece in the 1920s, his attempts to start a new life are constantly undermined by a society that refuses to accept him as ‘Australian’. Will he ever feel that this new country is his home?Ilias won the The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) in 1987 and was first published in 1988.

Every great invention needs a first victim.Felix is a pacifist engineer whose inventions have a tendency to maim. Kolya is his long-suffering partner who'd rather not die for someone else's idealism. Together, they owe a very large debt to a very dangerous man, the kind who sends his bodyguard Dullard to do the talking... and Dullard doesn't talk much.To survive, they'll need to pull off their first real engineering job, keep their friend Nina's tavern from...