{"id":1012,"date":"2013-06-03T05:33:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T05:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?page_id=1012"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:48:58","slug":"nikes-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?page_id=1012","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1012 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DITFP_Cover.jpg?fit=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Dying in the first person\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DITFP_Cover.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DITFP_Cover.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Rupetta.jpg?fit=265%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Rupetta\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Rupetta.jpg?w=907&amp;ssl=1 907w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Rupetta.jpg?resize=265%2C300&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Rupetta.jpg?resize=210%2C237&amp;ssl=1 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WintersTale.jpg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Winter&#039;s Tale\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WintersTale.jpg?w=1134&amp;ssl=1 1134w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WintersTale.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WintersTale.jpg?resize=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 724w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WintersTale.jpg?resize=768%2C1086&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/WintersTale.jpg?resize=1086%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1086w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/truegreen.jpg?fit=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"The True Green of Hope\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/truegreen.jpg?w=323&amp;ssl=1 323w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/truegreen.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WTSK.jpg?fit=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"What the Sky Knows\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WTSK.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WTSK.jpg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/WTSK.jpg?resize=210%2C164&amp;ssl=1 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/the-bone-flute.jpg?fit=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"The Bone Flute\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/the-bone-flute.jpg?w=324&amp;ssl=1 324w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/the-bone-flute.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/the-bone-flute.jpg?resize=210%2C324&amp;ssl=1 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Awards<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twelfthplanetpress.com\/products\/titles\/winters-tale#more-4291\"><em>Winter&#8217;s Tale:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Norma K Hemming Award (2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?page_id=1179\">Rupetta:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James Tiptree Jr Award (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Norma K Hemming Award (2014)<\/li>\n<li>(shortlist) Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Book (2014)<\/li>\n<li>(shortlist)\u00a0IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award (2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/Bone-Flute-N-Bourke\/dp\/070223446X\"><em>The Bone Flute:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>QLD Premier&#8217;s Literary Award, Emerging Author<\/li>\n<li>(shortlist) Commonwealth Writers Prize (Asia-Pacific Region) Best First Book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/What-Sky-Knows-Nike-Bourke\/dp\/0702235016\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;qid=1599439961&amp;refinements=p_27%3AN.+A.+Bourke&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1&amp;text=N.+A.+Bourke\"><em>What The Sky Knows:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(shortlisted) Children&#8217;s Book Council of Australia Awards (Early Childhood)<\/li>\n<li>(shortlisted) Children&#8217;s Book Council of Australia Awards (Picture Book of the Year)<\/li>\n<li>(highly commended) APA Design Awards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Reviews<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Winter&#8217;s Tale<\/em> is WONDERFUL. If you have a child in your life, they need this book. Or maybe you need this book. It is the magical story of a child who feels displaced and on the outer, searching for home and belonging.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/52621288-winter-s-tale\">Lauredhel @ Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sulway writes that a paper Samuel delivers about his late brother&#8217;s work seemed &#8220;elegant, informed, generous, intelligent&#8221; which perfectly encapsulates Sulway&#8217;s work in <i>Dying in the First Person<\/i>. It&#8217;s that rare book that is both accessible and sophisticated; and constantly surprising. It will linger in your mind long after you lay it down.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/28869636-dying-in-the-first-person\">Rebecca Lim on\u00a0<em>Goodreads<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sulway\u2019s writing is beautiful and evocative. She forces her readers to slow their pace, to absorb every detail, through her creation of scenes with real-time precision &#8230;<span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> a book about the complexity of human relationships and the little that children ever really know of their parents\u2019 lives.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/newtownreviewofbooks.com.au\/nike-sulway-dying-first-person-reviewed-jessica-stewart\/\">Jessica Stewart in the\u00a0<em>Newtown Review of Books<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Dying in the First Person\u00a0<\/em>is a\u00a0moving\u00a0exploration\u00a0of grief and identity, as well as a meditation on the power of language and translation.\u00a0 But it\u2019s very hard to convey just how stunning it is without spoilers.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just try to do my best\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Samuel and Morgan are twin brothers, separated by more than the oceans that lie between them.\u00a0 Samuel, whose point-of-view dominates the narrative, has stayed at home in Australia, caring for his widowed mother and living a conventional if lonely life.\u00a0 Morgan took off after his father\u2019s suicide and has never returned.\u00a0 His sole contact with his family is to forward his writing for translation by Samuel.\u00a0\u00a0 As boys, they had created a fantasy land with its own history and language, and now the continuing Nahum stories are widely read, providing both men with work to do and an income to live on.\u00a0 But Morgan\u2019s extreme political beliefs have led him to live a nomadic life, and to eschew both possessions and relationships.\u00a0 His brother Samuel actually knows almost nothing about him.&#8221; Lisa Hill,<a href=\"https:\/\/anzlitlovers.com\/2016\/09\/22\/dying-in-the-first-person-by-nike-sulway\/\"> ANZ LitLovers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;what impressed me the most about this book was Sulway\u2019s exquisite writing, giving us a text in which every single word appears to have been chosen with care, so that their combination renders what the author wishes to convey with both precision and beauty. There\u2019s a rare pleasure to be had from watching the sentences unfurl on the page, luxuriating in the sensations they evoke in the mind, sights and sounds, smells and feelings &#8230;\u00a0I regard <i>Rupetta<\/i> as one of the best books I read in 2013.&#8221; Peter Tennant, Case Notes,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ttapress.com\/blackstatic\/currentissue\/\">Black Static<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A stunning masterpiece of modern fiction, <i>Rupetta<\/i> pulls the reader into Sulway\u2019s world, and emotionally engages them in her life and struggles.&#8221; Matthew Johns,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishfantasysociety.co.uk\/reviews\/rupetta-by-n-a-sulway-book-review\/\">The British Fantasy Society<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>Rupetta<\/i> is a rich, complex work wrapped in an engaging style. It is not a book that can be pigeonholed. It has elements of fantasy, romance and even gothic horror in the mould of Mary Shelley&#8217;s Frankenstein. At the same time, it contains lengthy discussions on questions such as the meaning of knowledge. It is unlike any other book that you will read this year. If nothing else, it deserves a wide readership for the author&#8217;s bold ambition and striking feat of imagination.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/arts\/review\/lessons-of-an-age-old-heart\/story-fn9n8gph-1226674812796\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sulway uses rich and evocative prose to pull the reader irresistibly into her tale&#8217;s vividly rendered alternate Europe and its centuries of human power struggles. Her profound reflections on human frailty and the price for everlasting life seem as much a bonus as an integral part of its telling.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-905784-50-9\">Publishers Weekly<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The real treat here is the seamless flow of prose that makes the reading experience utterly unique.&#8221; &#8211; Rick Kleffel,<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bookotron.com\/agony\/news\/2013\/02-04-13-news.htm#n020613\">The Agony Column<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;And there are wondrous, moving passages full of lyricism, elegy, wonder and suggestive speculation.\u00a0 Cherish them as you puzzle out Rupetta\u2019s world and its underlying culture and history.\u00a0 This is a strangely enchanting,\u00a0wholly convincing novel.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jildysauce.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/04\/rupetta\/\">Jildy Sauce<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards Winter&#8217;s Tale: Norma K Hemming Award (2020) Rupetta: James Tiptree Jr Award (2014) Norma K Hemming Award (2014) (shortlist) Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Book (2014) (shortlist)\u00a0IAFA William L. 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