ISBN: 9781921274107
Author: Colin Macpherson
Size: 203mm x 127mm; 218 pages
Format: Paperback
Price: $24.95

So good that you can almost smell it

From the back cover:

On rare occasions, an injury can give you capabilities you never had before – and change your life in unexpected ways.

Derek Saddler is a tradesman – a boatbuilder – hard talking and hard working; so hard working, in fact, that his family life is falling apart. Then he has a boat-yard accident. He awakes in hospital with a sore head, and something else…what appears to be a condition known as hyperosmia, an enhanced sense of smell. But in Derek's case the enhancement is of a kind that no one has ever seen before, and the consequences for him and those close to him are profound.

THE BOATBUILDER'S NOSE can be read as a light, slightly-fanciful novel, but it also takes a serious peek at the nature of human perception and how this is linked to ancestral drives and contemporary social behaviour. It might also help you to understand your dog more.

Excerpts from reviews:

Peter C. Pugsley in: The Independent Weekly
It is written in an easy, dare I say "blokey" manner...simply a good story with down-to-earth characters...an enjoyable novel that can be enjoyed at face value.

Mary Vernon in: Townsville Bulletin
He [the main character] is constantly distracted by his new talent and, besides hampering his social interactions, it brings out some primitive drives as well. In a word: intriguing.

John Watson in: Australian Amateur Boatbuilder
…I enjoyed his first two novels immensely, and I haven't been disappointed with this new one. If you read it, I think you'll ponder it. And, as the back cover states, 'It might also help you to understand your dog more'.