Cirrus@Austlit

'Jake is a loner who works nights in a Darwin motel and lives at the YMCA. He’s in love with Angel, a Thai prostitute who works out of the low-rent Shark Motel.

'A vicious murder turns Jake’s life into a nightmare. He must fight for his life on the heat-soaked streets of Darwin and Bangkok in the wet season to get revenge, and to get his life back.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Ben drifts into Geraldton, broke, lost, and trying to escape a past that haunts him.

'At the Outback Bar, he meets Kelly, a topless barmaid. She’s nothing like he expects. She reads Salinger, Murakami, and carried around a copy of Girl, Interrupted for a year.

'Ben is entranced. She’s strong, determined, and encourages his dreams to write. With her, he feels he can reconcile his past. He feels he can become somebody more than he is.

'But Kelly has her own secrets – secrets that Ben tries to navigate. Ben feels the past tearing at him, and the possibilities of the future daunting.

'Drifting is a gritty, cult-classic in the making, a story of love, truth, and the power of dreams.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Walking is a collection of dark, gritty, true-life, crime and science fiction short stories by emerging Australian writer, Sean O’Leary.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.