Requiem for a BeastWe are largely defined by how we face our fears. A boy goes on a melancholy, often terrifying but ultimately life affirming journey of self discovery as a stockman in far North Queensland. In an exquisitely illustrated collage of memory and dreamscape, nightmare and cold reality, Matt Ottley fuses the moral choices of the individual with the demands of society. In this stirring adventure, the boy confronts a huge, rogue Brahmin bull and learns he must