Trent Dalton – författare

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, sat on a busy street corner with a sky-blue Olivetti typewriter and asked the world a simple, direct question: Can you please tell me a love story? A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of 30 years. A divorced mother has a secret affair with a travelling priest. A widower miraculously finds a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died. A lumberjack’s heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking the photographs of her late husband down from the fridge. A girl writes her last letter to the grandfather she adored, then sets it on fire. A palliative care nurse helps a dying woman converse with the angel at the end of her bed. A renowned 100-year-old scientist ponders the one great earthly puzzle he was never able to solve: What is love? Endless stories. Human stories. Love stories. WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT THIS BOOK: 'Told with the utmost care, this is writing at its best. Loved it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This is a book that I'll treasure forever, it made me laugh, it made me cry and everything in between. Simply sublime' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Brilliant, deeply moving, profound and philosophical… My heart feels lighter after reading this book. This is exactly what my soul needed' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘The most extraordinary writer – a rare talent' NIKKI GEMMELL, internationally bestselling author ‘A lyrical and mesmerising mythic quest story’SUNDAY EXPRESS ‘Extravagantly beautiful writing’ADELAIDE ADVERTISER ‘Unputdownable’SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 1942 – Japanese bombs rain down in Darwin, Australia. Motherless Molly Hook, the gravedigger’s daughter, turns to the road, seeking the deep-country sorcerer who put a curse on her family.By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a fallen Japanese fighter pilot.As they journey from the vine forests to Australia’s wild and magical monsoon lands, they will encounter grave danger and discover true love… Immerse yourself in a love letter to Australia from its best-loved writer. WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT THIS BOOK: 'Wonderful, lyrical storytelling. Fabulous and absorbing, I really couldn’t put it down' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Gloriously enchanting, yet brutally gritty… imaginative and offbeat… I adored it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I was hooked by the visceral magic inherent in the words and the beauty of its vision. A wonderful and expansive example of magic realism' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘A boisterous romp that spotlights serious social issues’ DAILY MAIL'A Down Under Demon Copperhead… it's more than feel-good, it's feel-everything. What a triumph' A. J. FINN Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, this is the irresistible new novel from the internationally bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from police and the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat.The girl has no name, but she has a dream – for a life of love, as an artist, outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld and its drug queen 'Lady' Flora Box.There's only one person who can help make her dreams come true: Lola. To find her, the girl with no name must do one of the hardest things we can. She must look in the mirror. Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, LOLA IN THE MIRROR is the irresistible new novel from the international bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES. WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT THIS BOOK: 'A unique and exciting author… There is an air of the mystical and fantastical in Dalton's writing' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'So well-written and thoroughly entrancing… Life-changing' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'What an amazing, beautiful novel. Deep, involving, colourful… I thoroughly enjoyed' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

*Make sure you read Trent Dalton's irresistible new novel, LOLA IN THE MIRROR, out now* ‘Electric’The Times ‘Thrilling’New York Times ‘Extraordinary’ Joanna Cannon THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES Australia, 1983Life is pretty tough right now for twelve-year-old Eli – what with his mute brother, a convicted murderer for a babysitter, a drug-dealing stepfather, an incarcerated mother and a long-lost father – surely it can’t get any worse?Think again. He’s about to fall in love, break into prison and cross paths with one of the most notorious criminals Brisbane has ever seen.A coming-of-age story like no other, Boy Swallows Universe is the most exhilarating novel you’ll read all year. WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT THIS BOOK: 'Profound, endearing, brutal… this will move you beyond belief and keep you hooked until the very last page' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Poetic and beautiful, fast-paced and thrilling… One of my all-time favourite books' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Trent Dalton has captured the humour and tragedy that colours everyday life for kids just getting by. This novel is part true-crime, part hopeless romance, part magical realism and laugh-out-loud funny!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'One of the best books I've read in years… I promise you won't be disappointed' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘A boisterous romp that spotlights serious social issues’ DAILY MAIL'A Down Under Demon Copperhead… it's more than feel-good, it's feel-everything. What a triumph' A. J. FINN Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, this is the irresistible new novel from the internationally bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from police and the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat.The girl has no name, but she has a dream – for a life of love, as an artist, outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld and its drug queen 'Lady' Flora Box.There's only one person who can help make her dreams come true: Lola. To find her, the girl with no name must do one of the hardest things we can. She must look in the mirror. Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, LOLA IN THE MIRROR is the irresistible new novel from the international bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES. WHAT READERS LOVE ABOUT THIS BOOK: 'A unique and exciting author… There is an air of the mystical and fantastical in Dalton's writing' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'So well-written and thoroughly entrancing… Life-changing' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'What an amazing, beautiful novel. Deep, involving, colourful… I thoroughly enjoyed' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It's the story of a murder.It's the story of a marriage.It's the story of a lifetime.How will you ever know how the story ends, if you let the story go?Noah Cork has just published the scoop of a lifetime: a white-hot true-crime book about the cold-blooded killer who slipped an unfolding murder mystery into his mailbox. But if this is his moment of triumph, then why is the tin roof being ripped from the walls of his reality? Why are skeletons standing upright in his closet? Why do people want to run him over in the street? And why does his wife keep writing a cryptic message across the bathroom mirror? As a severe storm heads towards Brisbane, Noah is hurtling headfirst into a swirling storm of secrets. He must now cling for dear life to the only story that ever really mattered. He must hold on to the truth. He must hold on to the story. He must hold on to love.Dark, gritty, hilarious and unexpected, Gravity Let Me Go is Trent Dalton's deeply personal exploration of marriage and ambition, truth-telling and truth-omitting, self-deception and self-preservation. It's a novel about the stories we want to tell the world and those we shouldn't, and how the stories we keep locked away are so often the stories that come to define us. It's the story of a murder. It's the story of a marriage. It's the story of a lifetime.

It's the story of a murder.It's the story of a marriage.It's the story of a lifetime.How will you ever know how the story ends, if you let the story go?Noah Cork has just published the scoop of a lifetime: a white-hot true-crime book about the cold-blooded killer who slipped an unfolding murder mystery into his mailbox. But if this is his moment of triumph, then why is the tin roof being ripped from the walls of his reality? Why are skeletons standing upright in his closet? Why do people want to run him over in the street? And why does his wife keep writing a cryptic message across the bathroom mirror? As a severe storm heads towards Brisbane, Noah is hurtling headfirst into a swirling storm of secrets. He must now cling for dear life to the only story that ever really mattered. He must hold on to the truth. He must hold on to the story. He must hold on to love.Dark, gritty, hilarious and unexpected, Gravity Let Me Go is Trent Dalton's deeply personal exploration of marriage and ambition, truth-telling and truth-omitting, self-deception and self-preservation. It's a novel about the stories we want to tell the world and those we shouldn't, and how the stories we keep locked away are so often the stories that come to define us. It's the story of a murder. It's the story of a marriage. It's the story of a lifetime.

Exiled in a drug-oppressed refugee suburb in 1980s Australia, a 12-year-old boy dreams of a career in journalism while fending off the local criminal element to protect his imprisoned mother. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.