The Thornbacks
$27.99
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
5 May 2026
Summary
Deliciously unsettling and chillingly funny, this singular debut novel from prize-winner Chloe Wilson delves into the worlds we would prefer to keep hidden.
‘We didn’t do anything at first. It was just an idea that grew in the dark, like a mushroom. Some pale, round spore of a thought finding form in the darkness. In your mind. And yours.’
‘The best debut novel you’ll read all year’ - Emily Bitto
It’s Friday night, date night, and two women are getting ready to head ou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761357244 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761357247 |
| Author: | Chloe Wilson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 5 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 155mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Chloe Wilson
Chloe Wilson is the author of the short story collection Hold Your Fire, winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award’s UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. She is also the author of two poetry collections, The Mermaid Problem and Not Fox Nor Axe, which was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Iowa Review, Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, ELLE Australia, The Big Issue, and Australian Book Review, among others. Her stories have won the Iowa Review Fiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Chloe is a former Voiceworks Poetry Editor and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne.
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