Winner of the Miles Franklin Award.Two of David Foster's previous books, Dog Rock and The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger, feature the eccentric postman D'Arcy D'Olivieres, a great and memorable creation, and one who makes a welcome return to Foster's fiction in The Glade Within the Grove. Now the retired postman of Dog Rock, D'Arcy recalls a time when he was a fill-in postman at a small town called Obligna Creek. There he discovers an unpublished manuscript in an old mailbag - The Ballad of Erinungarah, written by 'Orion'. As D'Arcy himself says, 'Weird piece of work. Back then, 1990, I'm not sure I understood the implications. But I have thought about little else since.' D'Arcy becomes obsessed by the Ballad and the events it describes, and writes The Glade Within The Grove as a gloss on the Ballad, and investigation of events that happened nearly thirty years ago: namely the establishment of a commune in the late 60s, deep in the forest country of the Far South Coast,...

Take one heavy metal band from Canberra, provide them with an unlikely level of global success, and then set them loose in India. The perfect recipe for madness, comedy and implosion. An over the top take on the rock'n'roll world from Australia's master satirist, David Foster.Plumbum was first published in 1983. Acclaimed author David Foster's other novels include Dogrock (1985), The Glade Within the Grove (1996), winner of 1997 Miles Franklin Literary Award, and In the New Country (1999). His most recent novel is The Contemporary (2018). Foster won the Patrick White Award in 2010.

Issue Three of the Review of Australian Fiction contains new writing from David Foster and Zoe Foster.