The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroFrom the Nobel Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.

Hamish and Victor

a queer sex worker in Australia

speaking with and for his community

or wattles as they are commonly known are the most widely distributed plant growing on the Australian continent

he lives a simple

the constantly sparring engineers who keep the ship running

Notre Dame is ablaze - the cathedral spire blackened

They said it was nobody's land

I didn't want to leave

Better yet

so he is devastated when he is rejected as an apprentice to Castle Redmont's Battleschool

The resilience and adaptability of Aboriginal people over millennia is one of the great human stories of all time