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  • Published: 3 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9781760894351
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 15

Adam's Mum and Dad: The third story from the Otto Bin Empire



The third of Judy Nunn’s short stories featuring the citizens of the Otto Bin Empire is an inspirational tale of finding family in the unlikeliest of places . . .

‘I have no family,’ Adam said, the blue eyes in the baby face now ice-cold. ‘I have no mother and I have no father.’

Adam is just fifteen years old when he stumbles upon the Otto Bin Empire, a community of homeless men and women who gather at the colourful wheelie bins down near the docks.

The teenage runaway is fleeing from his violent, alcoholic father, and now has one goal: to stay lost.

But parents can come in all shapes and sizes - as Adam is about to discover, following a chance encounter one winter night . . .

Also includes an extract from Judy Nunn’s upcoming novel, Khaki Town.

  • Published: 3 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9781760894351
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 15

About the author

Judy Nunn

Judy Nunn’s career has been long, illustrious and multifaceted. After combining her internationally successful acting career with scriptwriting for television and radio, Judy decided in the 90s to turn her hand to prose.

Her first three novels, The Glitter Game, Centre Stage and Araluen, set respectively in the worlds of television, theatre and film, became instant bestsellers, and the rest is history, quite literally in fact. She has since developed a love of writing Australian historically-based fiction and her fame as a novelist has spread rapidly throughout Europe where she has been published in English, German, French, Dutch, Czech and Spanish.

Her subsequent bestsellers, Kal, Beneath the Southern Cross, Territory, Pacific, Heritage, Floodtide, Maralinga, Tiger Men, Elianne, Spirits of the Ghan, Sanctuary, Khaki Town and Showtime! confirmed Judy’s position as one of Australia’s leading fiction writers. She has now sold over one million books in Australia alone.

In 2015 Judy was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her "significant service to the performing arts as a scriptwriter and actor of stage and screen, and to literature as an author".

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