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Firelight
Published 1 August 2023
ISBN 9781922790378
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 256pp
AU Price $32.99
NZ Price $38.00

Firelight

2023 Aurealis Award winner, from one of the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelists of 2024

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1 Aug 2023
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1 Aug 2023
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A wildly imaginative, page-turning collection featuring ghost stories, science fiction and satire, with Aboriginal characters at its heart.

An imprisoned man with strange visions writes letters to his sister.

A controversial business tycoon leaves his daughter a mysterious inheritance.

A child is haunted by a green man with a message about the origins of their planet.

In this striking collection of stories, the award-winning John Morrissey investigates colonialism and identity without ever losing sight of his characters’ humanity. Brilliantly imagined and masterfully observed, Firelight marks the debut of a writer we will be reading for decades to come.
Published 1 August 2023
ISBN 9781922790378
Format Trade Paperback
Extent 256pp
AU Price $32.99
NZ Price $38.00

About the author

John Morrissey

John Morrissey is a Melbourne writer of Kalkadoon descent. He was the winner of the 2020 Indigenous Writers Mentorship and runner-up for the Nakata Brophy Prize in 2018. John’s debut Firelight won an Aurealis Award and a Queensland Literary Award, and in 2024 he was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist. Bird Deity is his first novel.
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