Recent posts
I read stuff. I write stuff. Sometimes, these end up on the site. You can see the most recent attempts below.
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Now Is Not the Time to Panic chronicles the events of a fateful summer brought on by two unsuspecting teenagers, Frankie and Zeke. Theirs is an awkward, clumsy coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of secrecy and the building of a national pop culture moment.
This Devastating Fever
This Devastating Fever explores the life of Alice, a struggling author living through bushfires, pandemic lockdowns, and an ongoing climate crisis, painted against the backdrop of the previous century and the thinkers and writers that defined it – most notably, Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Limberlost
Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott’s third novel, Limberlost, is both a step away from the magical realism of his previous work, and a step up in his appreciation of the magic of the natural world, the human relationship to land and sea, and the small but honest ways in which we fall captive to nature, love and responsibility.
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