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In Search of the Blue Tiger ‘This is a marvellously surprising and rewarding work. By turns precociously clever and darkly disturbing, 11 year old Oscar Flower’s quest for the mythical blue tiger takes the reader on a transformative journey that challenges one’s expectations.’ Eleven year old Oscar Flowers is on a quest to make sense of the strange world of adults that surrounds him in the seaside town of Tidetown. The bizarre behaviour of his parents and great aunt impels him to search for the blue tiger, a powerful and beautiful animal that will save his family from themselves. Mrs April, the town’s librarian, helps Oscar in his pursuit of knowledge and generously shares her great love of books with him. A deep and wondrous friendship develops. Yet as Oscar falls under the influence of his peers, the fishmonger’s peculiar twin daughters, Perch and Carp, he becomes embroiled in a dark crime of vengeance with seemingly disastrous consequences.
Robert Power was born in Dublin and now lives in Melbourne, as an Australian citizen, with his wife and his youngest son. He freelanced as a journalist in London for a decade, appearing regularly in newsprint and magazines including The Guardian, New Society, New Statesman, Radio Times, Time Out, City Limits. An earlier version of In Search of the Blue Tiger was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2008. He has just completed Swansong, a literary thriller, and is currently working on a sequel to The Blue Tiger.
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Playing House Playing House is a rare pleasure – a warm and humorous memoir in three parts that subtly reveals what it means to create a family. Firstly working and travelling in Europe, then settling in inner city Melbourne and becoming caregivers to Lydia − a troubled teenager who tests the limits of friendship − and lastly parenthood and returning to visit family in Hong Kong. At its heart it is a story of an enduring relationship between an Asian-Australian and an Australian. ‘Amy Choi’s voice is sassy, smart and spirited as she guides you through places exhilaratingly foreign and yet comfortingly familiar.’ Alice Pung
Amy Choi was born in Melbourne in 1975. She has worked as a counter hand, in customer service, as an usher, foster carer, freelance writer and columnist. She lives in country Victoria with her partner and two children. You can visit her at www.amychoirevival.blogspot.com.
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