Gone
Out now! Ask at your local bookshop.
"Sometimes, as a critic, all you want to do is thrust a book into someone's hands and say, "Read this."
Gone is a plaintive, intense, and staggering novel, and it sets the bar high for Australian fiction in 2011."
-Diane Stubbings, Canberra Times
There can be no straight road home.
A young man is released from a Sydney prison, his hands empty, his identity gone. He catches a southbound train out of town then hitchhikes west. He hasn't been home for fifteen years.
For days Frank rides the highway through an unforgiving landscape, surviving on what he finds and the kindness of strangers. As he edges closer to a home he struggles to remember, his boyhood looms. Out of the past, something is coming that will tear through his fragile hold.
Chilling, haunting, suspenseful, Gone is a journey into one man's splintered world.
"Mills has composed a highly original and sophisticated piece of fiction."
Emma Young, Sydney Morning Herald
Buy Gone now direct from UQPor in a variety of ebook formats - check your local retailer
Gone is available as an ebook from independent Australian booksellers Avid Reader, Gleebooks, Fullers, Readings, and plenty of other places except Amazon at present.
The Diamond Anchor
The Diamond Anchor (University of Queensland Press, 2009)
An unexpected letter from her childhood friend Grace forces May to relive their extraordinary past and confront the events that drove them apart fifty years earlier.
May's father won the Diamond Anchor, a dilapidated pub perched on the ocean's edge, in a game of cards - a gamble which positioned her at the heart of the close-knit community for seventy years, and gave her custody of its stories.
Now, trying to maintain a careful balance between the demands of the collapsing building and her own solitary life, May must decide whether to reach out to Grace, whose health is fading, or let her go.
With all the humour and storytelling of small-town life, The Diamond Anchor is a brilliant tale of the places and relationships that define us.
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Also available as an ebook
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What reviewers said about The Diamond Anchor
Treading Earth
"Treading Earth is Jennifer Mills' first book of poetry. Its strength and muscularity mark it as a book which will be remembered not only because they are remarkable in a first book, but because they so easily deliver the original vision and clarity of the poet."
Buy Treading Earth (ebook - pay what you like)
Treading Earth was shortlisted in the 2008 Press Press chapbook competition and originally published by PressPress - out of print now, but you can still buy a paper copy from me.
Strike Anywhere / La Fosforera
Originally made as a limited edition run of 52 matchbox zines, this bilingual collection of poems in Spanish and English was written after travels in North and Central America in 2008. From the volcanic mountains of Guatemala to the streets of old Havana, the monstrous belly of Mexico City to the markets of Chiapas, it is a compact collection with a powerful fire at its heart.
Buy Strike Anywhere / La Fosforera (ebook - pay what you like)
