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In 1969, a young Tasmanian artist named Geoffrey Middleton discovered the secret of the lost diamonds of Killiecrankie. For nearly thirty years he kept his knowledge from the world, until his guilt drove him to confess all to novelist Gary Crew and illustrator Peter Gouldthorpe. Crew and Gouldthorpe have collaborated to present this intricate story with unparalleled originality collecting a veritable library of maps, paintings, letters and other documents to create an enthralling storybook pastiche.
Gary Crew
GARY CREW is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. He has won the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year four times and his readers have come to expect shadowy, surprising, incredible stories that must be read, and read again.
STEVEN WOOLMAN (1969-2004) completed a degree in Design and Illustration at the University of South Australia in 1990 and was always fascinated by bizarre fantasy. For the illustrations in The Watertower, his fifth published book, he used a combination of acrylic paint and chalk and pencil on black paper.
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