Eye of the Needle by Christopher Raja (Out 4 August 2026)

Eye of the Needle by Christopher Raja (Out 4 August 2026)A passionate story about the landscape of grief and the emergence of self by a distinctive new voice in Australian literary fiction. In 1882 a young Afghan named Kadir lands in Port Augusta. He has arrived with six camels to make his fortune, and so becomes the transport for a scientific expedition into the red centre. More than a century later a young man named Kris comes of age in the Melbourne suburbs, having emigrated from India with his family

Pereira lives a quiet and lonely existence

Banksias and flannel flowers

allowing us to make huge advances in medicine

Does the future exist

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This is an accessible introduction to an astonishing and controversial theory that could dramatically change our view of the natural world and our place in a turbulent universe

Gayle Kennedy and El Gibbs

all would be put back in place

fault and attribution

a Napoleon- acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law

'This is the way of life

But with the kingdoms closer to the brink of war than they've ever been