Book cover for Eucalyptus Goth by Brian Craddock

Eucalyptus Goth

2017 Released
706 Pages
11-16 Hours
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Broken Puppet BooksISBN 9780648112808

A full decade after Jello Biafra declared Brisbane a heavy junta police state, Dante Halloran navigates its streets aided only by his wits and a debilitating mental illness that he has nicknamed The Inferno. Australia has just ushered in a change of Government, and is still reeling from the recession that it "had to have", but for Dante these are hardly events that concern him: his is the pursuit of love, of somewhere to lay his head at night, of friendships that won't wane with the passing of the seasons.

With him on this journey are his so-called friends, equally lost: Twix, whose jealousies threaten to undermine their brotherhood; Alex, slowly spiralling out of control with the onset of her own condition; and Pixie, determined to find her individual, potentially fatal, way in life.

EUCALYPTUS GOTH explores a city now lost to time, where skinheads and punks clashed on the streets and a night at the Normanby Hotel was considered a rite of passage for the babybat goths.

Brian Craddock

Brian Craddock is a storyteller of several mediums: prose, comics, poetry, film and puppetry. His seven-issue Crimson: Riot Goth comics from the late 90s still garner attention, as do the three video reviews of Brisbane's goth scene that he co-directed: Everyday Devils & Angels. As a puppeteer he has travelled the Outback and Pakistan, and released a webseries called The Hobble & Snitch Show. As a special effects makeup artist he has worked on independent films and The Lion King stage musical in 2015.

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