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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Demons
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'They were going to tell stories. Let's go away for the weekend, said Megan, and leave our phones behind and turn off the computers and television and stop time because time is moving too fast and soon we'll all be saying where the hell did our lives go? We'll cook some food and drink some wine and each tell a story.

'It is the middle of winter. Seven friends travel to a remote coastal beach house for the weekend. Without phones, internet or television, they sit around the fireplace, telling stories – each exposing the foibles of humankind. But as a storm rolls in and torrential rain cuts the party off from the outside world, it soon becomes clear that some secrets are best kept hidden.

'Demons is an extraordinary novel by one of Australia's great writers.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my sisters
  • Epigraph: It holds, I replied, because all the stones ant to cave in at once... – Heinrich von Kleist, on observing an arch at Wurzburg.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2014 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 304p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 23 July 2014
      ISBN: 9781922147363

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Review : Demons Angus Dalton , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , October 2014; (p. 49)

— Review of Demons Wayne Macauley , 2014 single work novel
Well Read Katharine England , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 August 2014; (p. 27)

— Review of The Snow Kimono Mark Henshaw , 2014 single work novel ; Demons Wayne Macauley , 2014 single work novel
Macauley's Mix of Black and Gold Owen Richardson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 24 August 2014; (p. 17)

— Review of Demons Wayne Macauley , 2014 single work novel
Between the Lines William Yeoman , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 9-10 August 2014; (p. 21)
The Devil Is in the Detail of Fireside Tales of Savagery Lashing of Menace and Social Criticism Andrew Fuhrmann , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 August 2014; (p. 25) The Canberra Times , 9 August 2014; (p. 22) The Age , 9 August 2014; (p. 25)

— Review of Demons Wayne Macauley , 2014 single work novel
Demons by Wayne Macauley Review – Pathos and Parody of Australia's Intellectual Left Nicole Lee , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 24 July 2014;

— Review of Demons Wayne Macauley , 2014 single work novel
'A group of friends gather at a remote spot for a weekend of storytelling, with Macauley treading the fine line between satire and sentiment.'
The Unbearable Slightness of Being Ed Wright , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 July 2014; (p. 18-19)

— Review of Demons Wayne Macauley , 2014 single work novel
The Devil Is in the Detail of Fireside Tales of Savagery Lashing of Menace and Social Criticism Andrew Fuhrmann , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 August 2014; (p. 25) The Canberra Times , 9 August 2014; (p. 22) The Age , 9 August 2014; (p. 25)

— Review of Demons Wayne Macauley , 2014 single work novel
Macauley's Mix of Black and Gold Owen Richardson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 24 August 2014; (p. 17)

— Review of Demons Wayne Macauley , 2014 single work novel
Well Read Katharine England , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 August 2014; (p. 27)

— Review of The Snow Kimono Mark Henshaw , 2014 single work novel ; Demons Wayne Macauley , 2014 single work novel
Between the Lines William Yeoman , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 9-10 August 2014; (p. 21)
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