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‘You’re never content’: how ‘the captain’ changed course after Jasper Jones – Sydney Morning Herald

Craig Silvey’s first book in 11 years is about transformation. The “interminably stubborn” author of the smash hit Jasper Jones has been doing a bit of that himself lately.

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Hes wearing thongs. Everyone told me he would be. Its definitely not thongs weather. Its a cold, grey, drizzly August day in Fremantle. Ive just taken a half-hour train trip south from my home in Perth and Craig Silvey has picked me up from the station in his 10-year-old VW Golf.
Jane Palfreyman, his long-time publisher at Allen & Unwin, has known him for 12 years and can only remember seeing him in a pair of shoes once. It was to accept…

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