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Burning Down
by

Award-winning novelist Venero Armanno returns with a gripping novel about the high price of success.

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Overview

What if you had one last chance to make amends?

Charlie Smoke is living out his early retirement from the boxing ring as a bricklayer. It is the mid-1970s and he believes his best days are behind him. He’s lost his wife and daughter to his questionable past, but when he meets Holly Banks and her teenage son, Ricky, he has a chance to do things differently. As an unlikely friendship develops with Ricky, Charlie is unwittingly pulled back into the gambling underworld he thought he’d left behind. In order to make a new future, first he must help settle some old scores.

Burning Down is a searing new novel from acclaimed storyteller Venero Armanno about family, regret, love and the promise of salvation.

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Venero Armanno, author of Burning Down, The Dirty Beat, and Black Mountain

Venero Armanno

Venero (Veny) Armanno the author of two short story collections, Jumping at the Moonand Travel Under Any Star, and nine critically acclaimed novels. These include Black Mountain, The Dirty Beat, Romeo of the Underworld and Candle Life. His novel Firehead was shortlisted in the 1999 Queensland Premier’s Literary Award; in 2002 The Volcano won the award with Best Fiction Book of the year; and in 2018 Burning Down was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards - People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award. His works have been published in the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Israel and South Korea. Veny is a trained screenwriter and currently teaches creative writing at The University of Queensland.