Song of the Curlew
Title: Song of the CurlewAuthor: Lazaros ZigomanisPrice (Paperback): $25.00Publication Date: 1 June 2019Format: Paperback (210x140mm, 298 pages)ISBN Print: 978-0-6484789-3-5 Ebook: 978-0-6484789-4-2Category: Young Adult Fiction Dreams mean nothing unless you have the courage to pursue them. Luke Miggs wants more than small-town life – the grind of chores on the family farm, playing footy, and drinks with friends. Like maybe doing something about his crush on Amanda Hunt, a barmaid at the local who’s smart, funny, and ambitious. Or playing footy in the big league. At eighteen, it can’t be too late, can it? There’s the Curlews, at least, although the team’s little more than battlers. If only they could take…
Song of the Curlew
In early 2017, I published a young adult novel – Pride – under my YA moniker of ‘Lazaros Zigomanis’. This is actually the name I was baptised under. To provide some background, it was 2002. I ran a football website and the season had just finished. Collingwood had lost the grand final (there’s a shock), and I needed content for the off-season so I could maintain some readership. Therefore, I decided to serialise a story, and since my website was football-centric, I decided it was going to be a football story. I’d already had this vague idea for about ten years, but it was originally going to be based in…
