Samantha Byres and Thomas Vowles - The Next Big Thing

A darkly comic small-town mystery. An historical epic of women and war. A corporate gothic novel. A satire about the cult of beauty. A gritty queer thriller set in Melbourne’s underbelly. Are you ready for your next great read?

Fresh voices, unique perspectives and underrepresented stories come to the fore in the latest edition of The Next Big Thing.

Samantha Byres’s darkly funny debutDead Ends sees protagonist Nell Jenkins return to her small hometown for the first time since making her escape as a teen and Patricia Highsmith meets Christos Tsiolkas in Thomas Vowles’Our New Gods, a twisty psychological thriller set in Melbourne’s queer scene.

Join us to hear from some of the most exciting new voices working in fiction today.

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