Trick of the Light
by Laura Elvery

Trick of the Light is the beguiling debut collection from one of Australia’s rising stars.

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Overview

An art teacher sends four of her students on a guerrilla mission. A young runner struggles to make sense of his best friend’s death. A health-food company adopts a farcical promotional strategy. A factory worker spends her days applying radioactive paint to watches, while dreaming of a future with her new suitor.

With a keen eye for detail and rich emotional insight, Laura Elvery reveals the fears and fantasies of everyday people searching for meaning.

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The Saturday Paper

‘It’s her inventive characters meeting original circumstances that makes Trick of the Light that rare thing: a page-turning short fiction collection.’

Brisbane News

‘An assured collection, insightful and moving.’

Overland

‘Elvery’s debut reads like a triumph of excavation – a collection in which dark matter is exposed and subsequently transformed.’

Laura Elvery

Laura Elvery is a writer from Brisbane. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies. Her work has been published in Overland, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings and The Big Issue fiction edition. She has won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, the Margaret River Short Story Competition, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction. In 2018 Laura’s first collection of short stories, Trick of the Light, was a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards. Laura's latest short story collection, Ordinary Matter, was shortlisted for the 2021 USQ Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection and the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance.