David Francis - Free Library Land Online - Autobiography

The Great Inland Sea

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 09:31:09 +0300

Published to great acclaim in six countries, The Great Inland Sea is a haunting novel about a boy who escapes the scorched Australian landscape of his youth with a horse called Unusual, and returns as an adult to nurse his ailing father, discovering the secrets long buried there. The Great Inland Sea is an evocative story of grace and compassion, of a boy's loss and enduring hope as he endeavors to forge connections with the world around him. It marks David Francis as a powerful new literary voice.

The Beggar's Throne

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:13:16 +0200

The intricate tale of honor, treachery, power, and intrigue recounts the dynastic battle between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists during the fifteenth-century War of the Roses. A master storyteller, David Falconieri plunges readers into the early years of Edward IV's reign as the bitter struggle for the crown of England unfolds. We see nobility and commoners, families and lovers, all swept up in the hand-to-hand battles, political tumult, and emotional trials that the conflict inspires.

Stray Dog Winter

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:13:16 +0200

Steeped in intrigue, sexuality, and a stark noir beauty, David Francis' Stray Dog Winter is at once an unconventional Cold War thriller and an original, unforgettable love story set in 1980s Moscow. Darcy Bright, a hapless young Australian artist, receives a surprising birthday present from his elusive half-sister Fin, ostensibly in Moscow on a prestigious fellowship painting industrial landscapes. Fin sends Darcy a ticket to the Soviet Union housed in a leather money belt, and an invitation to join her-only if he's willing to bring the money belt and its contents. Although their relationship has, in the past, swung between passionate attachment and startling disloyalty, Darcy has been drifting in his own life, and sees this as an opportunity for direction and purpose. Or, at the very least, adventure, and decides to put himself in his sister's hands, bringing himself and the belt into the USSR. Upon his arrival into the bleak Soviet winter of 1984, Darcy is quickly engulfed in...

Wedding Bush Road

Mon, 28 Nov 2016 17:20:24 +0200

A family farm in rural Australia is the backdrop for "a rich, beautifully textured novel, unforgettable in its setting and the people who live there" (Los Angeles Review of Books).

When he learns of his mother's ailing health, young lawyer Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles and travel half a world away to the family's horse farm on Wedding Bush Road, one hundred miles outside of Melbourne. Estranged from his parents, Daniel is hesitant to revisit their history: long divorced, his mother still maintains the farm having put out her cheating, rakish husband, and even in these later years her anger burns brightly.

Daniel arrives at the farm in the heat of his parents' conflict with Sharen, an alluring tenant and ex-lover of his father now perched on family land. Sharen and her unstable son Reggie complicate an already difficult family dynamic while Daniel has to tend to his mother's condition, his father's contentious behavior, and...