The Reef

by David Caddy

Missing diamonds, a suspicious death, a dangerous reef and sinister strangers. Tom and Ellie have stumbled upon a real mystery, but one false move and they could be history. A shared bus trip to school each day turns to friendship when Tom helps Ellie, first with homework, and then with her grief following the death of her father under strange circumstances. But when everything reaches a terrifying climax out on the reef, it's Ellie who comes to the rescue. The Reef is an exciting adventure story from David Caddy, one of Australia's most entertaining writers for young readers. Caddys previous novels Whacko! and Smash are also available from Fremantle Arts Centre Press.

144 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2005

About the author

Poet, essayist, critic, literary sociologist and historian. He has edited international literary journal Tears in the Fence since 1984. His most recent book is Cycling After Thomas And The English (Spout Hill Press 2013). He was co-author of London: City of Words (2006), a literary companion, with Westrow Cooper. Most recent books of poems are So Here We Are (Shearsman 2012), The Bunny Poems (Shearsman 2011), Man in Black (Penned in the Margins 2007), and The Willy Poems (Clamp Down Press USA 2004). He has recently published essays on Jeremy Prynne, the Prose Poem, Charles Bukowski, Poetry and walking, David Chaloner and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and William Wordsworth’s ‘The Soltary Reaper’.