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Down The Hume

On sale

29th June 2017

Price: £8.99

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780733635564

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Polites’ writing is unpretentious, spare, sharp. Peter’s voice is raw, casual, genuine. This is urban storytelling at its best – Maxine Beneba Clarke on Peter Polites.

A contemporary noir novel, Down The Hume explores the nature of obsession and addiction. Hedonistic, confronting and heartbreaking – this story will not only drag you along at a rapid pace – it will tear you in two.

Reviews

FBi's Book Club
Feature TO COME
Queensland Times
A novel of addiction, secrets and misplaced love, this is an Australian debut not to be missed + Competition
The Saturday Paper
Polites' novel ultimately offers a riotous vision of an authentically multicultural Australia that One Nation - and increasingly the far right of the LNP - cannot accept. This makes Down the Hume essential reading in these times of "border protection".
Shelley Hadfield, Herald Sun
an edgy debut novel
Stellar
Book of the week
Nathan Smith, Weekend Australian
Hume is a robust study of ethnic, class and sexual identities that intersect in contemporary Australia + Article
Oliver Driscoll, Books+Publishing
smart and pleasantly unnerving
Kali Napier, Netgalley
Gritty novel of a Sydney I've never seen before.