Secret Third Thing by Dan Hogan

Secret Third Thing by Dan HoganWe had a black and white hand me down until mum won a colour television in a pub raffle. It was then, in the early 90s, when I was about five or six years old, that my dad, a striking factory worker soon to be made redundant, helped me read a picture book about an anthropomorphic red tractor. It was my first year of school. I asked him why bother learning the words when we have pictures. His response was something to the effect that if you can read

Combining many voices and many hands

Built on decades of research and field work and richly illustrated with rare photographs

Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy

as well as the iconic dingo and its place in Indigenous life

criminal justice

the read-aloud text mimic’s Brigg’s lyricism

Through an enchanting-and often amusing-story about two struggling strangers who meet an eccentric tycoon who becomes their secret mentor

from the scientists trying to reverse-engineer brain circuitry to the largest radio telescope of its kind on Earth which could help us detect alien life

But now they have a mystery to solve together

Should you take HRT

I realise I need to find some other way of letting off steam

How do you make readers root for your protagonist