THE FAMILY MEN

When you're born into a dynasty of champions, any sin can be forgiven. But what if that's not the life you want? With piercing insight, The Family Men subverts the usual choices between winning and losing, guilt and innocence, courage and cowardice. Is true honour to be found in forging your own path or staying loyal to your pack? This provocative novel topples the pedestal on which we place our idols and takes a discomfiting look at the values our society celebrates.

"The Family Men is an intense distillation of the darkness that falls after the Friday and Saturday night lights have been turned out. This novel is shocking because it is so believable. Sometimes you hear football insiders mutter about a scandal in the game, ‘It's even worse than you think.' Catherine Harris has cut right through to that shadowy truth, and come back with horror, yes, but also a sign of hope." - Malcolm Knox

Catherine Harris' short story collection, Like Being A Wife, was shortlisted for the 2011 Age Fiction Prize, the 2011 Barbara Jefferis award, and as a manuscript for the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Her short stories and essays have been published in Australia, Canada, England and the USA, appearing in such journals as Ambit, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Overland, Stand and Wet Ink. She won the 2009 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize, the 2010 Alan Marshall Scholarship for Emerging Writers, and was previously awarded a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts and a scholarship from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the US. She has since been shortlisted for several national and international awards including the 2013 Fish International Short Story Prize and the 2013 Bridport Prize.