Landscape

by Stephen Faulds, Paul Boadle (Photographer)

An artist seeks redemption in the Australian outback and Nepal. Landscape is a novel of texture and colour from the arid north of Western Australia to the snow trails of the Himalayan Mountains. It is the story of a middle aged Australian art teacher on the Hero journey of an Artist in search of self realisation. When his wife ends their thirty year marriage, Mark Brooker sees his personal myths of love and happiness destroyed and replaced by the perils of relationships that are undefined. On a journey to salvage his life, he encounters the mystery of tribal art in the Australian desert and the archetypal dichotomy of Eastern spirituality and Western materialism in India and Nepal. Written with poetic prose and vivid imagery Landscape is a literary fiction tale of an unorthodox approach to the mid life crisis of an Australian baby boomer. (117,500 words approx.) AUTHOR INTERVIEW Q. Is Landscape an autobiographical novel? A. No. A number of readers have asked me that question. They tell me the story has the immediacy of a personal memoir. This may be because I drew on the settings of my own life and some of the minor characters resemble people I have known. The multiple settings of the story are directly from my life - the arid north west of Australia, the High School, the Nepal trek and various parts of India. Just as I teach my creative writing students, I try to recreate settings with which I am familiar then people them with my characters and let my characters live out their dramas in those settings. Q. It sounds as if you have a particular approach to writing fiction. Is this the case? A. Not really. I am very eclectic. I have written about my exploration of the craft of writing in How To Write And More Importantly How To Be A Writer.

362 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 19, 2011

About the author

Stephen Faulds is an English teacher with many years experience teaching both English and Drama. He has self-published fourteen novels and one non-fiction title as ebooks. He has written many short scripts, which have been performed by students at both primary and secondary level. His play 'Seatown' was performed at The Blue Room theatre in 2007 and has been published by The Australian Script Centre. He has a web site featuring his writing, photography and artwork, which is archived at the State Library of WA.