Jordan Prosser

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

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...