Cirrus@Austlit

'A dizzingly intelligent and compulsive work of fiction from an outstanding new Australian writer.

'Redmond Campbell's luck has just taken a turn for the worse. His dog's dead, his wife Bea went to prison three days ago, and he has to look after Bea's sister, Lori, a wildly disinhibited woman with Huntington's Disease. What really grates him though, is that despite all he's done for her, Lori hates him. In fact, even Redmond's nephew, Mada - a PhD student searching for a cure to the disease that's killing his mother, and potentially one day himself - doesn't give Red the respect he deserves. But Red is about to change all that. He's got plans to become Sydney's leading property agent - on the residential end, at least - and he's about to make a connection that will line him up a killing. It's almost legal too! Well, almost. What matters is that Red has a whiff of success, and he's damn sure everything's about to come up roses.

'Funny and moving, profound and profane, both an intimate family drama and an incisive parable of capitalism and collapse, this is an anarchic, joy-filled, and ribald read from one of Australia's most exciting authors. A novel about the dance of the body through the world, it is a story brimming with sting, hope, and gratitude for a world that is equal parts cruel and kind.' (Publication summary)

'From the backroads of the Australian outback to the icy streets of Paris winter, these dynamic poems traverse geographies, languages and techniques. Marked by a subtle probing of the metaphysical layerings that underpin human experience, this exploration returns again and again to the concrete details of everyday happenings. Drawing equally on moments of joy and loss, shifting from comic and bawdy bohemianism to introspective sensory envelopment, Awake at the Wheel evokes a dynamic and fragile world. This fragility is an insistent theme, both in terms of human mortality and ecological crisis. These poems travel across a beautiful earth, through mental and spiritual zones bleached by consumer capitalism, and through country ravaged by mining, passing amongst the ghosts of those who have gone before, the spirits of loved ones, and of cultural and literary inheritance. This is a collection of playful, innovative and imaginative poems, driven by a refined and attentive musicality, brimming with possibility and surprise.' (Publication summary)

'Adyn Cole boards a flight from New York. He returns to Australia to bury his uncle, Fletcher, leaving a decade of life behind him—a lost job, a relationship in ruins.

Although Adyn is favoured by his uncle′s estate, Fletcher′s passing yields a legacy of betrayal and ruptured kinship. In Koorawatha, his inherited Blue Mountains home, Adyn will discover how hard it is to escape the demons of the past, and how profoundly a family can be corrupted by greed. Yet living in the house are two people who will redeem him, helping him to mend a part of himself that has long been broken.

A compelling story of the darkness of the human soul, the twists of fate that can transform our lives and the dazzling beauty of our world, Beyond the Frame's Edge is a powerful novel from an exciting new literary talent. '