The Hourglass Map
$19.99
Authors: Ryan Collins and Stuart Kells
Australia’s modern history has long been full of mystery, legend and myth.
But what if all the myths are true?
The Hourglass Map is a captivating story of adventure, world-making and contested history.
It is a story of unlikely friendships and remarkable journeys.
And it is a story about the unique nature of stories and the transformative power of words.
In an alternative Australia, the Theory of Everything reigns supreme.
The world’s greatest minds have built the Consistency Engine – a marvellous, fractal machine – as the physical embodiment of the Theory. The Engine stores all knowledge and purges it of contradictions.
Deviations from the official view of history are forbidden.
But some people maintain the old beliefs: stories and superstitions that are whispered over cups of Earl Grey tea and slices of lemon-butter bread.
Mary Page has always believed the old legends – the Inland Sea, the Mahogany Ship, Lasseter’s Reef. She journeys to the centre of the continent to prove she is right, and the Theory is wrong. But the expedition is a disaster. Mary and her party disappear in the central desert.
Mary’s son, Will, vows to find out what happened to his mother. Pursued by officials and assassins, Will follows his mother’s tracks to the heart of the continent. He finds a place where fantasy and reality meet, and where the truth depends on who controls the story.
Additional information
| ISBN | 9780648960904 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | The Lane Press |
| Publish Date | October 7th, 2020 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Genre | Young Adult Fantasy |
| Page Count | 234 |
| Dimensions | 12.7 x 20.32 cm |
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A lockdown project we waited years for
Nothing quite said publishing in lockdown Melbourne like taking selfies in a public carpark whilst wearing masks and holding freshly printed books!
This was a project we all believed in, and felt connected to, and worked our little Zoom cameras off to achieve.
We probably learnt more about each other through the honesty of tiredness and those months of the great unknown than we would have in a traditional publishing and editing sense.
I love this book, I truely do. Working on it was an absolute pleasure and I hope you find reading The Hourglass Map as much of a delight as we had bringing it to life for you.
“The Hourglass Map is thoroughly enjoyable and has all the hallmarks of what constitutes a ‘favourite’ book – face-paced, suspenseful, evocative of time and place, and exciting. Young adults will enter its world and be delightfully lost and older readers will be the same; all will be appreciative of a tale well told.”
It did give us an opportunity to play with the jacket design concepts until we found ‘the one’. We engaged local Australian graphic designer Naomi Creek to refine our concept and prepare what you see today on the final book!
