This Taste for Silence
by Amanda O’Callaghan

A marvellously accomplished debut collection from QLA Writers Fellowship winner Amanda O’Callaghan.

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Overview

The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.

Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O’Callaghan’s stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a ‘taste for silence’.

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‘If you only read one short story collection this year, make it this one!’

The Sydney Morning Herald

‘This is one of the most substantial and memorable collections of short fiction by an Australian writer that I have read for a very long time.’

Literary Hub

‘One of my favourite story collections this year.’

Amanda O’Callaghan

Amanda O’Callaghan is a Brisbane-based author whose short stories and flash fiction have been published and won awards in Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Her work has been awarded and shortlisted in the Bath Flash Fiction Award, Flash 500, Carmel Bird Award, Aeon Award, Bristol Short Story Prize and Fish Short Story Prize. A former advertising executive, Amanda holds English degrees from King’s College London, and a PhD from The University of Queensland. In 2016 she was a recipient of a Queensland Writers Fellowship. This Taste for Silence is her debut collection