Forget Joyce, Wright is the new master.

Set in the fictional town of Praiseworthy in northern Australia, the book works at the scale of systems rather than individuals, threading climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, bureaucracy, and Indigenous sovereignty into a dense, often satirical narrative field. This book is anti-linearity in favour of Indigenous relationships to time, space, land; distinctively relational and not comparable to a Western perspective.

Voices, documents, mythic registers, and political absurdities within this demanding book, but one that is deliberately so—positioned against the comforts of legibility and consensus, and squarely within contemporary debates about land, power, and futurity in Australia.