Eighteen stories of rural Australia - and it's all here - drama, adventure, humour, love lost and won - and just battling on with life. Ron Iddon's Murray River Collection is chock-full of characters that some would say could only be Australian. Here you find the country's greatest cricketer (but no-one knows of him), a Lothario who believes he has found his true love but who is met only with hostility, a young sheep station owner who gives his friend a day on the property that the visitor only just survives, an antiques dealer who has devoted half his working life to tracking down an iconic and immensely valuable piece of Australian heritage, a woman who has cleverly plotted to redeem the unjustly defamed reputation of her late husband, and a young man who befriends that mythic Australian bush creature, the Bunyip. Ron Iddon has 'got it down'; as a chronicler of the lives of those Australians who live outside the cities this man is at the top of his game.