Meyne Wyatt

A young Aboriginal couple brings home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinister turn, as the baby's mother starts seeing a malevolent spirit she is convinced is trying to take her baby.

In a sweeping tale that spans 1000 years and multiple generations – from the distant past to the 19th century, the present day and a strange, dystopian future – this landmark collection traces the collective histories of Indigenous peoples across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Diverse in perspective, content and form, traversing the terrain of grief, love and dispossession, they each bear witness to these cultures’ ongoing struggles against patriarchy, colonialism and racism.

Moogai is Bundjalung for ‘ghost’, and it is precisely a moogai that intrudes on the quiet home life of Sarah, Fergus and their newborn baby.

Logan, a cynic with a photographic memory, follows his sister's killer onto a night-rider bus. As the line between past and present begins to blur on the journey, Logan uncovers he has a complex past with much more than one passenger.

사막으로 둘러싸인 낯선 땅, 모래폭풍이 휩쓸고 간 그날 밤... 아이들은 사라지고, 그들을 둘러싼 숨겨진 진실이 드러난다! 호주 광활한 사막으로 둘러싸인 소도시로 이사온 캐서린과 매튜 가족. 달라진 일상, 부부는 적응하려고 노력해보지만, 두 아이들은 자꾸만 엇나가기만 한다. 그러던 어느 날, 거대한 모래폭풍이 불어 닥쳐 붉은 모래로 세상이 뒤덮인 밤 아이들이 사라진다. 사라진 아이들을 둘러싸고, 마을에 남겨진 채 그들을 찾으려는 캐서린 부부와 이웃 사람들의 숨겨진 진실이 서서히 드러나기 시작하는데...