The Ballad of Banjo CrossingA tender, heartwarming and utterly appealing novel about the power of community, love, loss and second chances. Jack McPhail is a man on the run from his past, a drifter who lands by accident in a sleepy outback Australian town called Banjo Crossing. Jack almost despite himself becomes slowly drawn into the town, its community, its characters and its concerns. He's on the brink of falling in love with Mardi, a young widow and owner of the local coffee

I'm astonished I have any consciousness

an aspect often missing in the cold political treatises on Kashmir

murder investigations

strengthening their emotional resiliency

Let the festivities begin…

and gripping from page one

The situation soon goes from bad to worse—because the Ellisons haven’t been invited just to participate in the program

But with a whispered warning the future he envisioned is wrenched away

goes to nearby Bear Island

impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter

sorts it all out

and politics of a cast of characters