Adult Book

Proof copy. 8vo. 385pp. Yellow wraps. Original Australian title, A Private Man (2004).

Winner of a Ned Kelly Award (2005) for Best First Fiction. Shortlisted for the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (SE Asian and Oceania region), the New South Wales Premier's Award (Christina Stead Prize for Fiction), and the Tasmanian Pacific Fiction Prize. Named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian novelists (2001).

Author's second novel. "The whole point of the thing was that it was unconfessable. This was a pain that could never be shared, a pain that, if shared, would be doubled. Trebled." Filtered through the lens of two areas of masculinity – cricket and pornography – Adult Book is at once a poignant story of a family's grief, an artfully constructed thriller and a provocative dissection of men and their private passions. "If Tim Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones." –The Guardian