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Darcy Grant, graduate teacher, arrives in steamy Far North Queensland in the 1980's to take up his first teaching job. Struggling with the frontier lifestyle, Darcy is drawn to a mother figure at the school, Frances Russo. Through Frances, he is welcomed to Silkwood, a tiny cane-farming hamlet. The Sicilian immigrants are friendly, but wary of the southern outsider. Darcy relies on rules and order, just like in his classroom, but he finds the power of attraction is greater. He takes a dangerous path within a community where honour is defended, while his actions trigger retaliation for unfinished family business.

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Greg Bourke's career has focused on writing and expression, first as an English teacher, and later within corporate communications. Over many years, he has helped many families and people with their stories and memoirs. Greg was inspired to write a novel based in Far North Queensland, the scene of his first teaching post in the 1980s, when revisiting the region years later. His debut novel, 'Under Silkwood', was shortlisted for the Queensland Writers' Centre 2024 'Adaptable' program, and an excerpt from the novel was long-listed in the 2024 Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Award.

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