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Miles Allinson
Miles Allinson is a writer and an artist, and the author of the multi…
DiscoverMiles Allinson wins The Age Book of the Year
Scribe is very proud to share that Miles Allinson’s In Moonland has won the 2022 Age Book of the Year for fiction.
Judges Bram Presser and Susan Wyndham described the work as ‘a novel about the ways we yearn to belong; a deeply moving excavation of faith, autonomy, identity and, ultimately, mortality. Allinson writes with great warmth and insight, his exquisite prose offering light to even the darkest corners of his characters’ hearts.’
In Moonland is a portrait of three generations, each grappling with their own mortality. Spanning the wild idealism of the 70s through to the fragile hope of the future, it is a novel about the struggle for transcendence and the reverberating effects of family bonds.
Miles Allinson is a writer and an artist, and the author of the multi award-winning novel Fever of Animals. He lives in Melbourne.
In Moonland
WINNER OF THE 2022 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR FICTION
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE 2022 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION
‘A parent’s love for a child, you probably know this yourself, it’s pretty bottomless. It goes down into the guts of the world. But a child’s love for a parent is different. It goes up. It’s more ethereal. It’s not quite present on the earth.’
In present-day Melbourne, a man attempts to piece together the mystery of his father’s apparent suicide as his young family slowly implodes. At the ashram of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, in 1976, a man searching for salvation must…
