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Strange Objects: The CBCA Award-winning bestseller

Gary Crew

4 Reviews

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Fiction, Kids & Teens, Children's Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage)

The 25th anniversary edition of this landmark novel, in which a chilling modern mystery is entwined with one of Australia's most brutal and intriguing historical atrocities. From one of Australia's most awarded writers, Gary Crew, with a foreword and cover illustration by Shaun Tan.

On 4 June 1629, the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the West Australian coast. By the time help arrived, over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea, but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter Loos and Jan Pelgrom.

Nearly 400 years later, Steven Messenger discovers gruesome relics from that wreck. Four months later he disappears without a trace. Where is Messenger? Is his disappearance linked to the relics? Someone knows ... somewhere ...

'this stunningly original work defies easy categorization as it spins dual story lines into one spellbinding yarn ... Crew tantalizes to the very end, leaving readers to speculate enthusiastically on the riddles he craftily leaves unsolved. His tale will electrify his audience.'
Publishers Weekly

'STRANGE OBJECTS will continue to tease and perplex readers of all ages long after it has been read.'
Australian Book Review

'A supernatural mystery of a high order'
Kirkus Reviews

'The past is alive in us all, and will test our humanity to the full.'
Marion Halligan

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Praise for Strange Objects: The CBCA Award-winning bestseller

  • this stunningly original work defies easy categorization as it spins dual story lines into one spellbinding yarn ... Crew tantalizes to the very end, leaving readers to speculate enthusiastically on the riddles he craftily leaves unsolved. His tale will electrify his audience. - Publishers Weekly

  • STRANGE OBJECTS will continue to tease and perplex readers of all ages long after it has been read. - Australian Book Review

  • A supernatural mystery of a high order - Kirkus Reviews

  • The past is alive in us all, and will test our humanity to the full. - Marion Halligan

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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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