BLUE GIANT
Published by UQP (Australia) and Dead Ink Books (UK).
Available August/September 2026.
Planet Earth is cooked. Abby Horne wants off.
Abby always believed she was destined for great things. But her dream career as an industry-disrupting fashion designer went up in smoke, and her aspirations to become a world-renowned yogi and/or save the endangered tigers proved equally fruitless. She’s in her early thirties, suffering the unbearable burdens of adulthood and anonymity, when she wakes up after a drunken bender with an all-new, all-consuming purpose in life: to be the first person on Mars.
Perfect timing – Danish tech entrepreneur Tor Skovgaard is currently recruiting for a one-way mission to colonise the red planet. Abby knows this is it: her last-ditch bid for fame and glory. And if she can’t be humanity’s saviour … she’ll settle for being its martyr.
Blue Giant is an unruly eulogy for millennial optimism – a deranged love letter to a generation torn between helplessness and selfishness.
‘A paean to millennial ennui, manic delusion and the destructive false promises of the capitalist machine … brimming with satire and glorious trainwreck characters.’
– Siang Lu
‘Savagely precise and shockingly funny … captures the absurdity, brutality and sheer banality of life on a world on the brink better than anything I’ve ever read.’
– Sarah Walker
BIG TIME
Published by UQP, Dead Ink Books, Mattioli 1885, Azbooka-Atticus.
Available now through all good booksellers.
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In a not-too-distant future Australia, the eastern states have become the world’s newest autocracy – a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention.
Julian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, returns to Melbourne after a year abroad and reconnects with his band to record their highly anticipated second album. On a whirlwind tour of the east coast, he gets hooked on a new designer drug, F, a powerful synthetic hallucinogen that gives users a glimpse of their own future. Rumour says, the more you take, the further you see… maybe even to the end of time.
Big Time is an anti-fascist ode to the power of pop music, wrapped up in an unforgettable, psychedelic road trip.
‘Big Time is pure punk. This insanely funny novel is a hallucinogenic rush: I wanted to inhale it and ride the high that comes in its wake.’
– Kris Kneen
‘This debut, with its tribute to pop music’s power to change the world, is a rollicking ride told by a master storyteller.’
– The Age