The City of Quartz

Rowan Sweeney is a thirty-three year old perpetual student with relationship and vocational issues. Out of desperation he takes a job with Douglass Green - a Doctor of something or other publisher of curios and New Age therapist living in Central Victoria. Rowan soon discovers Green has a hidden agenda involving Neo-Druidism Alchemy cricket music obscure languages and a quantum computer. Asked to write a biography about Abraham Isles an important 19th Century convict-mystic Rowan quickly realises hes in over his head ... literally. The novel is partially set in an Alternative Australia where the European colonisation of the continent took a different path early in the 1830s. The novel explores themes related to: the place of creativity in life and society the impact of colonisation on indigenous peoples New Science notions of self-identity creativity and physical reality and the age old conflict between Materialism and sacred views of the cosmos. It is also a story about love and assuming adult responsibilities in our complex post-modern world.