AustLit

'I used to think that I'd escaped Southport . . .
Now I realised, Southport had been coming for me all this time.

'Erin Sloane was sixteen when high school senior Andre Villiers was murdered by his friends. They were her friends, too, led by the intense, charismatic Ricky Hell. Five people went into West Cypress Road Woods the night Andre was murdered. Only three came out.

'Ativan, alcohol and distance had dimmed Erin's memories of that time. But nearly twenty years later, an ageing father will bring her home. Now a journalist, she is asked to write a story about the Southport Three and the thrill-kill murder that mesmerised the country. Erin's investigation propels her closer and closer to a terrifying truth. And closer and closer to danger.' (Publication summary)

'Music Our Bodies Can’t Hold’s premise is unique: 54 poems for the 46 chromosomes in the human body. Each poem is distinctive in typography and voice, gleaned from a primary source interview of a public or private figure believed to have Marfan syndrome. Often very tall, slender and gifted, those with Marfan syndrome are aesthetically, artistically, intellectually, athletically extraordinary. As the collection’s poet, Andy Jackson puts it: ‘Marfan troubles the boundaries between “disability” and “extraordinary ability”’; much anguish is caused by this illness, and there is a sense of being ‘dumb with pain / suffused with light’, ‘when the genetic stars align’’.'  (Introduction)

'Desire. Double lives. Deep Cover.

'It’s an immediately volatile pairing when Vince ‘The Black Prince’ G meets Suze at the superbly seedy Sunset Club.

'Will Suze shatter Vince’s family life and topple his empire? And is Suze even more lethal than she seems?

'Set in the dirty, cutthroat world of Carlton’s 90’s underbelly, The Sunset Club is an uncensored story of a self invented anti-hero meeting his match, cops versus crooks, double identities and deep cover – told amidst a fog of smoke, coke and sex.' (Publication summary)