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FIRST INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION Welcome to the colourful world of the White family. It is the early 1930s, the Great Depression, and they have fallen on hard times. Like many others, they have been 'on the road', travelling in search of work, but have now settled in the travellers' camp at Warning Hill, just outside the country town of Tiburon in central New South Wales, living in a hut of their own making. Dave White, the patriarch, is so only in his own estimation. His hard drinking, sly wrangling, complaining and leeching dependency drive his motherless children mad. The older children are...

In 1939, with rumours of war circulating, the poor souls who have been displaced by the Great Depression are still on the tracks. Across New South Wales, a ragged army of those who 'battle' for a living are still on the lookout for work, making things to sell, pursuing a con or busy planning a new one. 'Battlers' not only struggle against all the elements which seem so set against them; 'battling' is also cadging what you can in any dodge that offers, so that tonight's camp might be a little bit more comfortable, or that there might be a little bit more than nothing to eat. Long, lanky,...

FIRST AMERICAN PUBLICATION OF AN AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC "Far and away the finest novel of modern life in an Australian city that has been published." The Adelaide Advertiser The inner city suburb of Foveaux is known as a place of ill-repute; it's a bit of an embarrassment to the good people of Sydney. From the harbour shore up a steep hill in a maze of tiny streets, the Foveaux houses range from terrible dingy slum-dwellings with searing drains at the foot of the hill to much more substantial semi-respectable abodes at the top. Interspersed between all this teeming residential activity are the...