Vulture's Gate

Kirsty Murray

Price:	AUD $15.99(NZ$18.99)
ISBN:	9781741757101
Format:	Paperback - B format
Publisher:	ALLEN & UNWIN
Imprint:	A & U CHILDREN
Number of pages:	252
Publication Date:	August 2009
Edition Number:	1

It is 40 years into the future and the world is in turmoil. A plague has destroyed humans' ability to conceive females, or so Callum thinks until he meets Bo. A page-turning adventure unfolds as the pair rely on each other to survive a dangerous journey to a safe haven in the city of Vulture's Gate.

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One girl - could she be the last girl alive? One boy, pursued by reckless men who have kidnapped him from his fathers.
Bo and Callum go in search of a safe haven, a place to call home. But where can they turn and who can they trust? When every stranger is a threat, does their only hope lie in reaching Vulture's Gate?
Following a journey that takes them across barren deserts and lost valleys, Bo and Callum must discover how to survive alongside runaway boys and crazed religious terrorists, in a world with an uncertain future.
And what is the disturbing secret at the ruined city's core?

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About Kirsty Murray

Kirsty Murray is the author of many novels including Zarconi's Magic Flying Fish (winner of the WA Premier's Children's Book Award, 2001), Market Blues and Walking Home with Marie Claire. She has also published several non-fiction books for children and the Children of the Wind quartet of Irish-Australian novels - Bridie's Fire, Becoming Billy Dare, A Prayer for Blue Delaney and The Secret Life of Maeve Lee Kwong. Kirsty's novels have won and been short-listed for numerous awards including the WA Premier's Award and the NSW Premier's History Award. She has been a Creative Fellow of the State Library of Victoria and an Asialink Literature Resident in South India. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and a drifting tribe of young people.

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