MISTER ROMANOV'S GARDEN IN THE SKY

Funny, poignant, clever and wonderfully entertaining, this is the next brilliant new novel from the talented author of When We Were Two, Runner and The Black Dog Gang.

A violent incident sparks an unlikely and surprising friendship between a young girl and an old man, leading to an adventure that brings drama and understanding to their lives in contemporary Melbourne.

Robert Newton works as a full-time firefighter with the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. His first novel, My Name is Will Thompson, was published in 2001. Since then he has written six other novels for young people, including Runner, The Black Dog Gang and When We Were Two, which won the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and three daughters.