Boy on a Wire
Blog URL http://boyonawire.blogspot.com/
Located Bakers Hill, Western Australia Australia
Tags book, depressions, becoming a man, rites of passage, boarding school, heavy metal poisoning, bullying
This is a blog about a book. When you get there you will find other links to other bits the author has created.
Latest Blog Posts
- YES! on Oct 4, 2009
This week a printer will start the presses on a vibrant new edition of "Boy on a Wire".Lovely.It will look much the same as the previous edition, but all the minor errors will be corrected and a small collection of the most perceptive of the reviews...
- The boy is home on Sep 4, 2009
Three weeks on tour is enough to make a ground man sick and tired but luckily this man is not fully grown and although it was hectic and full on with full trams and buses and even boats there is nothing like arriving home and finding a smooth, sharkl...
- Doust heads east on Aug 7, 2009
Jon Doust is heading east to shove and push and generally talk up his new book, Boy on a Wire. It’s a heavy book, yet light, and easy to read. It’s time to push. Sales are good, but could be better. Lots of folk on the eastern seaboard have not...
- oh yes, now you can listen to it on Jul 9, 2009
It is read by Paul English who has also read Mao's Last Dancer.Paul's work in theatre includes twenty-five productions for the Melbourne Theatre Company, from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure to Janis Balodis' The G...
- THE AGE - Non-fiction, Fiona Capp, 4/7/2009 on Jul 6, 2009
THE boarding-school experience - bullying prefects, sadistic teachers and cruel rituals - has produced some classic films and books. While there is much that is familiar about Jon Doust's recollections of ills at a West Australian grammar school in t...
- Hugh Manning interviews the author of Boy on a Wire on Jun 14, 2009
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- BOOK SIGHTINGS on May 25, 2009
"Boy on a Wire" is still being reviewed and consistently well.People are seeing the book all over the place and walking in on friends who are offering it to them as "a good book to read".What does all this mean to me?It has meant me coming to terms w...
