Fabulous fiction
BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE
By TRENT DALTON Borough Press
This debut novel by Aussie journo Trent Dalton is an exhilarating page-turner about a boy on the cusp of manhood and his quest to find the essence of what it takes to be a “good man”.
It’s no easy task for protagonist Eli Bell, growing up in the gritty, working-class side of Brisbane in the ’80s. His father, an obsessive reader, is mostly
