Books
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Five Roads Out of Here (2023)
In late-1990s regional Australia, five friends finish high school.
As summer begins and their futures await, each friend faces challenges navigating their own road out of childhood, school and small-village life.
CJ deals with the confusing death of her mum.
Sam battles with the strangeness of his own senses.
Trent agonises over his lack of career options.
Alexandra learns about the disappointment that comes with perfectionism.
And Clink, seeking to find his true self, tries to break free from old ways of thinking.
Amid these personal challenges, and as summer nears its end, a senseless tragedy rocks them all.
Told from five first-person perspectives, Five Roads Out of Here documents the 100 days after school ends for a group of friends learning about love, death and change, while getting their licences, partying hard, making big life choices — and trying to stay friends.
A playlist for Five Roads Out of Here
While regional Australia is the backdrop to Five Roads Out of Here, music provides much of the soul.
Here is a playlist featuring many songs that appear in the text. Most tracks are from Trent’s CD collection, though other characters get a song or two in there that they would enjoying listening to.
Listen to it here at Apple Music.
Grade Five: When Footy Became Everything (2022)
When his teacher makes him keep a journal, Zac seizes on the chance to write about Australian rules football every day.
Footy’s everything to Zac. He’s about to play his first season of Under 12s. It’s what he’s always dreamed of.
But as he struggles to make the team, get a kick and deal with a bully, Zac begins to wonder if Under 12s footy will ever be as fun as he’d imagined.
Determined to keep trying, Zac soon discovers that his best skill isn’t taking a huge grab or kicking a goal – it’s being there for his friends when it matters.
Set during the 1991 AFL season, Grade Five: When Footy Became Everything is a funny and heartwarming story of school and sport through the eyes of a footy-mad kid.
Other works
They Use Violence, We Use Force and Other Writings (Compilation)
Prem the Pirate’s Trial by Media (2014)
How to Forget Someone: Very Short Stories (2011)
Tom Climbs the Fence (2010)
What do I write about?
Writing fiction is my lifelong hobby. I’ve been typing away purposely since 2001, in between more important things.
Broadly, I’m an auto-fiction writer. I ground stories in my memories of time and place. The characters are fictitious — unless they are based on me. The events are fictitious — unless they are based on my own experiences.
What is Eve Street Press?
ESP is an independent publisher. Or a self-publisher. Or just me, Shane Worrell, writing, editing and putting stuff online.
My books are available on Amazon.
Contact
shane.worrell[at]outlook.com