Josh and the Mine
By John Welford
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The things that happened to him in the last holidays have been twisted by some of the residents of the hamlet where he and Matthew Forsyth stayed. Now he must tell the true story. It is not a story that makes him proud. The rumors about it could ruin the man who led the rescue and damage his own reputation in the small community in which he grew up. The true facts are bad enough.
Josh gets bored on his own, so he invites Matt to go with him to Johns farm. While staying there, they hatch a plan to go into an old gold mine in the bush that borders the farm, a mine that they have been told was dangerous.
What happened, as a result of this plan, nearly killed John, who is like an uncle to Josh. The local policeman also goes to hospital. Josh did not mean this to happen, but Matt and he set out to do something forbidden.
They started out having a lot of fun in that mine, but Josh later discovered things about the mine and about himself. Those things trapped him there. Matt has to call John to rescue Josh. They succeeded, but the mine got its own back while Josh slept. When he woke up, they are nowhere to be found. He realized that they were still in the mine and that he has to get them out of the mine before either of them die. It becomes a race against time before Elysium claims a friend.
What can have happened? Who is Mad Max, and why does Josh hate him? What happened to sending Senior Constable Angus McIntyre to the hospital as the rescue was completed?
John Welford
John Welford: He remembers his mother teaching him to read at the age of four. Ever since then he has loved to read. As a boy, on holiday from school he would lie in bed reading a book until late in the mornings. At school, boarding school, he would read under the blankets by the light of a torch, after lights-out. Writing, however, was a different thing. English composition was hard, though not as hard as comprehension exercises - they were boring. Of course, he understood what he read. Why bother to answer questions about that? It wasnt until he wrote a history essay on the causes of the First World War when he was sixteen that he found out that writing could be fun. he scored 19/20, but believes his handwriting lost him the one mark. He didnt immediately take up writing screeds and screeds far from it he wrote only when he had to and only as much as was absolutely necessary. Typical schoolboy! Later, studying for a degree in England meant more scribbling, mostly notes in lectures, but that was hard work and far from what he really wanted to be doing: sailing. Meanwhile, somewhere at the back of his mind was the thought that he would like to be able to write a book - about what he didnt know, just a book any book. He never found the time during his working life to write one. When he retired, suddenly, he found himself making a little essay that he wrote for a boy he was tutoring, into a novel. In 2006, he won a Macquarie Longlines Fellowship to Varuna House, the writers House and used that time to write much of this novel and to make a start on a biography of his parents.
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