Safe Haven

The book cover for Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran includes the taglines 'A Novel' and 'From the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens'

The image is a beautiful montage of layers of blue wavy water upwards on the image until the top which has a night, starry sky with a full moon in the centre. The outside edges have images of red, orange seaweed with various things hanging from pieces - handcuffs, swimming goggles. There's strands of barbed wire woven through that. In the centre, below the title which has the waves of the layers blended over the top of large white lettering, there is a small boat, with a bow wave around it. There are fish, flowers and a sea bed at the bottom.

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. 

It was a beautiful evening. The wind gathered speed, lifting the frangipanis from the grove behind him, pink and yellow petals defying gravity. Beyond the trees,...Read more