After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals…

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist’s harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

Charlie Bucktin is a bookish boy of 14. His life changes forever when Jasper Jones, the city’s multiracial outsider, shows him the body of young Laura Wishart one night. Entrusted…