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Jem Poster is the author of a poetry collection, Brought to Light (Bloodaxe, 2001), and two novels, COURTING SHADOWS, published by Sceptre in 2002, and RIFLING PARADISE, to be published by Sceptre in 2006. He holds the Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 2003 Rifling Paradise won an Arts Council Writers' Award for a work in progress.
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Destitution and scandal drive 19th-century British gentleman Charles Redbourne on a voyage to Australia in Poster's atmospheric second novel. Charles hopes to collect specimens of rare wildlife, but his trip soon goes literally and figuratively offtrack. His stay with a family friend is unsettled by his host's daughter, a volatile artist with a troubled past. Bullen, his expedition manager, clashes violently with their porter, Billy Preece, deriding the servant's guidance, even though Billy's Aboriginal heritage provides their only authentic connection to the untamed land they traverse. As the journey devolves toward danger and even death, Poster (Courting Shadows) evokes complex Victorian attitudes toward nature, culture, progress and science. Charles is a compelling portrait of a man moving uneasily among conflicting possibilities of his time, but his personal story never truly gels, while the book's suspense and romantic elements jostle uneasily against its ruminative philosophic themes. (Apr.)
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0340822953
- ISBN 13 9780340822951
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages324
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