Cirrus@Austlit

'Powerful First Nations Tasmanian play about the knots of identity goes on tour.' 

'An historical drama, meticulously researched and written in lyrical prose.'

'Playing with the entangled possibilities of art, life and love.'

'Indigenous grief and identity at the forefront of this explosive show.'

'Croggon’s background as a poet is tangible, and her language in Monsters is flavoursome.'

'A multi-dimensional treat, Claire Thomas writes with graceful precision in her newest fiction work The Performance.'

'An elegy for a friendship and artistic partnership cut short by death, this new non-fiction book grasps at profundity that fails to land, says Anna Westbrook.'

'A classic story updated to interrogate race, gender and sexuality.'

'A novel of reminiscence for a different time: 1980s Australia and its rumbustious music scene.'

'#MeToo is not one thing ‘owned’ by one group of women, as this new collection of personal essays, fiction, and poetry demonstrates.'

'Edited by Benjamin Law, this collection of over 50 voices offers solace for all those who knew the graze of safety in silence.'

'It is 1946, and Sydney is a changed city. In the aftermath of World War II, soldiers have returned to their neighbourhoods, and the community is mending its rifts. When eleven-year-old Frances Reed is found raped and murdered in a Newtown cemetery, the sensationalised details make their way into the media, whipping the city into frenzy — everyone wants the killer found and justice served.

'Sixteen-year-old Templeton lives in the seediest part of Sydney’s underbelly, amid bootleggers, gangs, and prostitutes, with his sister Annie and her friends. Convinced he knows who killed Frances, he becomes determined to bring the perpetrator to justice, in the process becoming embroiled in a feud between Annie’s beau, the violent Jack Tooth, and local hard man Bob Newham.

'In the doglegged streets of Darlinghurst, Templeton and Annie are forced to seek protection from a madam: the once-powerful grog runner Dolly Jenkins. Under Jenkins’ roof, Templeton is drawn into a titillating, enigmatic world of bohemian sexuality, where secrets abound.

'Inspired by a real murder case, Dark Fires Shall Burn is a powerful historical crime novel that explores the intersection of justice and vengeance, and a community’s hunger for resolution.' (Publication summary)