Warning: The Story Of Cyclone Tracy

Author: Sophie Cunningham

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  • : $32.99 AUD
  • : 9781922079367
  • : Text Publishing Co
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  • : June 2014
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : Australia
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  • : July 2014
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Description

The sky at the top end is big and the weather moves like a living thing. You can hear it in the cracking air when there is an electrical storm and as the thunder rolls around the sky...When Cyclone Tracy swept down on Darwin at Christmas 1974, the weather became not just a living thing but a killer. Tracy destroyed an entire city, left seventy-one people dead and ripped the heart out of Australia's season of goodwill. For the fortieth anniversary of the nation's most iconic natural disaster, Sophie Cunningham has gone back to the eyewitness accounts of those who lived through the devastation - and those who faced the heartbreaking clean-up and the back-breaking rebuilding. From the quiet stirring of the service-station bunting that heralded the catastrophe to the wholesale slaughter of the dogs that followed it, Cunningham brings to the tale a novelist's eye for detail and an exhilarating narrative drive. And a sober appraisal of what Tracy means to us now, as we face more - and more destructive - extreme weather with every year that passes. Compulsively readable and undeniably moving, Warning is the essential non-fiction book of 2014.

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* Extract to be placed in high-circulating weekend press magazine * High profile review coverage in all major newspapers * Review coverage in literary journals and glossy magazines * Radio interviews on major ABC and commercial stations nationally * Press interviews in select newspapers and weekly magazines * Wide online review and interview coverage * Author will be a guest of major Australian literary festivals in 2014 * Lightwall advertising in major airports * Advertisements in literary and current affairs publications such as ABR, the Monthly and on their associated websites * Online advertising on news sites such as Fairfax (Age) and News Ltd (Northern Territory News) * Advertisements in bookseller newsletters * Banner advertising on bookseller websites * Major social media campaign including targeted FB advertising * Author video to be available on Text's website, YouTube, the author website and on bookseller sites

Author description

Sophie Cunningham is the author of two novels, Geography (2004) and Bird (2008) and the non-fiction Melbourne (UNSW Press, 2011). She is a former editor of Meanjin and was until recently the chair of the Australia Council's Literature Board.