Cherrywood. Jock Serong. 2024.

Edinburgh, 1916:

Rich Scottish industrialist Thomas Wrenfether embarks on a scheme to build a paddle steamer out of dubiously sourced European cherrywood on the other side of the world, in booming Melbourne, Australia. Little goes according to plan.

Melbourne, 1993:

Martha is a clever, frustrated lawyer. One night she stops at a strange pub in Fitzroy, the Cherrywood, for a bottle of wine. The mysterious building and its inhabitants make an indelible impression, and slowly she begins to decipher a very different world.