No Place Like Home
Australian stories by young writers aged 8-21 years
Edited by Sonja Dechian, Jenni Devereaux, Heather Millar and Eva Sallis

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This is the second of three books in the series, the first being the 2005 NI best seller Dark Dreams and the third to come in 2006.

These young writers have something important to say to all Australians.

Their extraordinary collection of stories creates a narrative picture of Australians, past and present. It is also a mosaic of journeys, for we are nearly all displaced peoples or the descendents of displaced peoples, whether we are from Indigenous, settler, migrant or refugee families.

No Place Like Home includes stories of hatred and love; war, aftermath and resolution; fear and hope; great suffering and great heroism; small journeys and unimaginably huge journeys. Each story touches on some essential aspect of being in Australia, becoming Australian or being Australian.

Here are moving pictures of the big and small experiences that form who we are as individuals and as the many peoples of a unique place.

Measures: 135mm x 210mm, paperback.
Pages: 180 pages.

"I am left with a sense of hope - an emotion that can be easily lost in times such as these."
Tony Birch

"There is great sadness in these pages, but also indomitable spirit."
Geraldine Brooks

"Deeply affecting, enriching and memorable."
Nicholas Jose