On the Java Ridge by Jock Serong
In the nation's capital, the Minister for Border Integrity is set to announce a hardline policy about offering assistance to asylum-seekers in boats. A group of Australian surf tourists have anchored their vessel, Java Ridge, beside an idyllic reef off the Indonesian coast. A few kilometers away, the Takalar is having engine trouble. Among the passengers fleeing from persecution are Roya and her pregnant mother. The storm now closing in on the two vessels will mean catastrophe for them all.
Jock Serong is the author of Quota, winner of the 2015 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction; The Rules of Backyard Cricket shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction, finalist for the 2017 MWA Edgar Awards for Best Paperback Original, and finalist for the 2017 INDIES Adult Mystery Book of the Year; and On the Java Ridge, shortlisted for the 2018 Indie Awards. On the Java Ridge was awarded the inaugural Staunch Book Prize, for a novel in the thriller genre in which no woman is beaten, stalked, sexually exploited, raped or murdered.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781925498394 |
| ISBN 10 | 1925498395 |
| Title | On the Java Ridge |
| Author | Jock Serong |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Text Publishing |
| Year published | 2017-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Colin Roderick Memorial Award 2018 (Australia), Winner of Staunch Book Prize 2018 (UK), Short-listed for Melbourne Prize for Literature: Best Writing Award 2018 (Australia), Long-listed for Indie Book Award for Fiction 2018 (Australia), Long-listed for ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year 2018 (Australia) |
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