Petrol stations without traffic, radio stations without listeners, buses that go nowhere.

Set in a regional Australian settlement, it follows a young writer who arrives to research disappearing towns and finds himself absorbed into the place’s empty routines. The town insists it has no history. But, the sudden appearance of holes opening across the landscape, a spreading absence that mirrors the town’s already fragile claim to existence.

Deadpan, restrained, and faintly surreal, The Town explores how places hollow out, how erasure becomes ordinary, and what kind of identity remains when a location drifts toward becoming nowhere. A debut novel that lingers in its inertia, showing Australia’s uneasy relationship with its own margins.

Uncorrected advance proof copy preceding the first edition. Brow Books/The Lifted Brow, 2017. Paperback. Good condition, with rubbing, scratching and light edge wear to the covers. A scarce pre-publication state of the author’s debut novel.