Sandy Meredith

A Death In Custody (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Blood on the Streets as a Town Explodes' boomed the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald one winter's morning in 1987. Heavily armed police had been dispatched to quell a 'race riot' in a northern New South Wales town after yet another young Aboriginal man had died in police custody. Intent on learning the real story behind the headlines, Lou Williams, aspiring investigative journalist, goes north. Each character she meets -- country and western singers, community elders, militants and mechanics -- give her a fragment of the truth. In 'a death in custody' these fragments combine into a mosaic stained with entrenched and deadly racism.

This story is a fictional account of events that ignited anger, suspicion and outrage across Australia, and that led to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody which investigated the deaths of 99 Aboriginals in police custody in the 1980s. Little has changed since then.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LightwoodBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780957395213
• Artikelnr.: 54776518

Autorenporträt

Sandy Meredith grew up on a farm near the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, then lived in Melbourne and Sydney, and travelled widely in Australia. She worked as waitress and cook, telephone linesman, book editor and political organiser, among other things. Since 2001 she has lived in England, taught legal research skills at Oxford University, and is now publisher at Lightwood Books.