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Monday, 27 January 2020
If you loved Boy Swallows Universe and Lost and Found, you will love this debut novel. A stunning story about family, loneliness and isolation that will make you laugh, cry...

 

Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Allen & Unwin is thrilled to be publishing Below Deck, the highly anticipated debut novel from author Sophie Hardcastle. A haunting story about the vagaries of consent, about who has...

From the publisher 

Wednesday, 22 January 2020
‘Publishers dream of novels like Below Deck. It probes and tests the lines between humans and landscapes, safety and threat, art and daily life, health and illness through characters and...

 

Wednesday, 22 January 2020

Endorsements 

Wednesday, 22 January 2020
‘Below Deck will leave you breathless. Sophie Hardcastle is a phenomenal, courageous talent.’—Clementine Ford, author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys ‘Lyrical, profound, and deeply moving,...

About the book 

Wednesday, 22 January 2020
And then, just like that, a thought bubbles inside me. It’s a beginning; a new beginning; my beginning. The beginning of the story I tell myself in order to survive....

About the author 

Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Sophie Hardcastle was born in 1993. She is an author, artist, screenwriter and scholar. In 2018, she was a Provost’s Scholar in English Literature at Worcester College, at the University...

Read an extract 

Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Read the first chapters of Below Deck here.

Reading copy giveaway 

Wednesday, 22 January 2020
For your chance to receive one of ten advance reading copies of Below Deck, email us at marketing@allenandunwin.com and tell us why you’re excited to read it!

Events 

Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Sophie Hardcastle will be available for events during March. If you are interested in holding an event with Sophie, please contact Isabelle O’Brien email: isabelleo@allenandunwin.com

 

Tuesday, 14 January 2020
A powerful new voice in Australian literary fiction ‘Such striking tender beauty.’ —Holly Ringland

About the book 

Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Ava and her two young sons, Max and Teddy, are driving to their new home in Sheerwater, hopeful of making a fresh start in a new town, although Ava can't...

Advance praise 

Tuesday, 14 January 2020
'Sheerwater is that rare gift of a book that balances gorgeous, glittering language with breathless pace. Leah Swann writes with devastating honesty … This is an extraordinary novel—I tore through...

A word from Leah Swann on ‘Sheerwater’ 

Tuesday, 14 January 2020
The story explores the fearsome ambiguity at the core of some relationships—in this case a marriage, where all that was trusted has become slippery—a vortex that’s also what the title,...