Holden Sheppard and Nigel Featherstone In-Conversation

Holden Sheppard's nuanced & authentic Invisible Boys is a raw, confronting YA novel that explores the complexities and trauma of rural gay identity with painful honesty, devastating consequences and, ultimately, hope.

Set in the shifting sands of Egypt during WWII, Nigel Featherstone's Bodies of Men is a beautifully evocative tale of two men whose lives are brought together by tragedy. A tender love story that will appeal to lovers of Sebastian Barry's remarkable Days Without End, it also challenges our definitions of bravery and masculinity within the traumatic theatre of war that echoes Kevin Powers' powerhouse The Yellow Birds.

Holden and Nigel join together to discuss their remarkable books.

About Invisible Boys

On the surface, nerd Zeke, punk Charlie and footy wannabe Hammer look like they have nothing in common. But scratch that surface and you’d find three boys in the throes of coming to terms with their homosexuality in…