Our New Gods
by Thomas Vowles

A literary psychological thriller set in Melbourne’s queer scene with the suspense of The Talented Mr Ripley and the gritty emotional landscape of Christos Tsiolkas and Bryan Washington.

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Overview

Ash has recently arrived in Melbourne and fallen in love with his charismatic new friend, James. After witnessing a disturbing altercation at a party, Ash suspects that James’s mysterious boyfriend is hiding a sinister side. Is he dangerous? Or is Ash’s jealousy fuelling paranoid delusions?

A compulsive novel that offers no easy answers, Our New Gods marks the electrifying debut of a major talent. It has an assuredness that reflects Thomas Vowles’s success as a screenwriter: the atmosphere is taut, the plot twists are dizzying, and the story will haunt readers long after the final page.

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Christos Tsiolkas

‘The twenty-first-century bright young things in Thomas Vowles’s very impressive debut novel are aloofly beautiful and nonchalantly evil. It’s a rush of a read, pleasurable and disturbing in equal measure.’

Madeleine Gray

‘Thomas Vowles has written something sui generis – a heaving, sinister, sweaty vision of contemporary queer Melbourne. Our New Gods is a gay Bildungsroman with a knife’s twist: I was hooked and couldn’t look away, even when the seediness of obsession and unfounded desire made me desperately want to. Reading this is like watching a car crash in slow motion but you’re the driver and you meant to do it.’

Sophie Cunningham

‘The publication of Our New Gods is cause for celebration, for it signals the emergence of a gripping, unique and unexpected voice in Australian literature. Thomas Vowles is the real deal.’

Emily Bitto

‘Enthralling, dark, elegant, sexy, electrifying. This taut debut has it all. Thomas Vowles is a thrilling new voice in Australian fiction.’

Thomas Vowles

Thomas Vowles lives in Naarm/Melbourne. As a screenwriter, he’s worked with production companies based in Los Angeles, London and Australia. He released a collection of short stories as an episodic zine, and is a graduate of Central Film School, London, and the Faber Academy. Our New Gods is his debut novel.