\u2018This is a disturbingly credible and darkly noir post-cyberpunk tale.\u2019 Australian Bookseller & Publisher, July 2011<\/p>\n
Critically acclaimed author Kim Westwood returns in August with her second novel, The Courier\u2019s New Bicycle. Join Salisbury Forth on twenty adrenaline-fuelled days as a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne \u2014 a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews.<\/p>\n
Life is stressful, post-pandemic. A vaccine dispensed Australia-wide is causing mass infertility, and the government has banned all remedies except prayer. While the pious gather under the streetlights at dusk, vigilantes prowl for transgressors. When someone starts trading tainted hormones on the boss\u2019s patch, Salisbury must find who\u2019s trying to destroy the business before everything goes belly up \u2026<\/p>\n
About the Author:<\/p>\n
In 2002, Westwood\u2019s story The Oracle won an Aurealis Award. Since then her stories have been chosen for Year\u2019s Best anthologies in Australia and the US, and for ABC radio broadcast. She is the recipient of a prestigious Varuna Writer\u2019s Fellowship for her first novel, The Daughters of Moab.<\/p>\n
Westwood developed her distinctive visual sensibility while working as a theatre performer and deviser. Darkly poetic, her stories have a preoccupation with humanity\u2019s capacity for destruction and its equal instinct for survival. Most are set in a near-future Australia. Of this she says: \u2018My imagination has a chemical reaction to living on Terra Australis and responds strongly to its particular properties.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018This is a disturbingly credible and darkly noir post-cyberpunk tale.\u2019 Australian Bookseller & Publisher, July 2011 Critically acclaimed author Kim Westwood returns in August with her second novel, The Courier\u2019s New Bicycle. Join Salisbury Forth on twenty adrenaline-fuelled days as a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne \u2014 a city of fuel<\/p>\n