In the not-too-distant future, Australia's eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy - a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy and moral indecency is punished with indefinite detention. Julian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, returns to Melbourne after a year overseas and reconnects with his bandmates as they prepare to record their hotly anticipated second album. On a whirlwind tour of the east coast, he gets hooked on a new designer drug, F, a ...

In un'Australia non troppo distante nel futuro, gli stati orientali sono diventati la nuova autocrazia, la musica pop è propaganda contro il regime, la scienza è il nemico e l'indecenza morale è punibile con la detenzione a tempo indeterminato. Julian Ferryman, bassista degli Acceptables, torna a Melbourne per ricongiungersi con i suoi compagni di band e registrare il loro attesissimo secondo album. Durante un travolgente tour sulla costa est del paese, Julian scopre f, un nuovo potente si...

The most electrifying debut novel of 2024- Almost Famous meets Slaughterhouse-Five.Big Time is set in a not-too-distant future Australia, where the eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy - a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy, nationalism trumps all, and moral indecency is punishable by indefinite detention.The novel opens as Julian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, returns to Melbourne after a year overseas. He reconnects wi...

Planet Earth is cooked. Abby Horne wants off.Abby always believed she was destined for great things. But her dream career as an industry-disrupting fashion designer went up in smoke, and her aspirations to become a world-renowned yogi and/or save the endangered tigers proved equally fruitless. She's in her early thirties, suffering the unbearable burdens of adulthood and anonymity, when she wakes up after a drunken bender with an all-new, all-consuming purpose in life- to be the fi...