A NEW NOVEL set in the Sunshine Coast hinterland has been published by Nambour writer Andrew Thelander. ‘Last Birds’ takes readers on a bizarre adventure through such places as Cooran, Pomona, Tewantin and Noosa.
Andrew told the Hinterland Times that he used Teutoberg – Witta’s original name – for much of the action in his humorous account of the fate of the Paradise Parrot, an extinct species.
Set in the early 1970s when petty bureaucracy was rife in Queensland, the story follows legal disputes over ownership of the rare bird and a series of upheavals that lead the main characters to go bush and live like wild kangaroos.
Andrew has been a textbook writer for many years but this is his debut novel.
Last Birds is available in all major book stores on line and locally at Rosetta Books. Last Birds has been described as “a rollicking good read, full of unexpected twists”.
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