Below the Styx

How on earth does Marcus Clarke, a brilliant young Englishman?author of For the Term of His Natural Life, an Australian literary classic?stranded on the far side of the world and dead for more than a century, get himself mixed up in a murder in exclusive, modern day Toorak? A challenging, amusing, and intriguing novel about reading, writing, and thinking.

Michael Meehan grew up in the north-west of Victoria. He studies law at the University of Adelaide, and literature at Monash and Cambridge Universities. He has taught in universities in many countries in Europe and Asia, and is a professor and former Head of the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. His novels have been published in Australia, the UK, and the US, and he won the NSW Premier's Award for Fiction in 2000 with his first novel, The Salt of Broken Tears.