Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth What if Cormac McCarthy was Australian and wrote accessible prose? The result might be quite a bit like Paul Howarth’s debut novel. Set largely in the Australian cattlelands of the 1880s, Only Killers and Thieves is a book about good and evil, innocence and experience, white and black, and the near impossibility of maintaining your ideals in a corrupted world. Tommy McBride is the younger son of a cattle rancher. Drought has rendered the family ranch nearly free […]
A Stunning Debut From Down Under
Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth