On the Java Ridge - Softcover

Serong, Jock

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Synopsis

In the nation’s capital, the Minister for Border Integrity is set to announce a hardline policy about offering assistance to asylum-seekers in boats. A group of Australian surf tourists have anchored their vessel, Java Ridge, beside an idyllic reef off the Indonesian coast. A few kilometers away, the Takalar is having engine trouble. Among the passengers fleeing from persecution are Roya and her pregnant mother. The storm now closing in on the two vessels will mean catastrophe for them all.

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About the Author

Jock Serong's debut novel Quota won the 2015 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel. In 2016, The Rules of Backyard Cricket was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. On the Java Ridge is his third novel. Jock teaches law and writes. He lives with his wife and four children in coastal Victoria. Jock Serong won the Ned Kelly Award for Quota and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Rules of Backyard Cricket. It was a finalist for the prestigious UK Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger Award for Fiction 2017.

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ISBN 10:  1925603806 ISBN 13:  9781925603804
Publisher: Text Publishing Company, 2019
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