Nights in the Sun — Colin Bowles

It was the year I broke a bone in my leg, the year I got my first kiss, and the year Jesus got himself shot.

One dead Japanese pearl-diver who is starting to smell. A big, slow Filipino crewman. A beautiful girl called Amy O'Rourke. And Sam, who gets mixed up with them all, and maybe shouldn't have.

Sam is a skinny layabout, working at the Sun Picture Stadium for his dad, and dreaming of being a hero, a cowboy, a legend.

It's Broome, the year is 1926, and the heat is on.