THE PASSENGER SEAT 

The Passenger Seat is my first novel. It explores the connections between male friendship and violence without offering any easy or comforting answers. It was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo/New Directions/Giramondo Novel Prize. You can find The Passenger Seat in your local independent bookstore in the US and Canada, and you can pre-order it ahead of its April/May 2025 release in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Praise for The Passenger Seat:

‘unsettling and powerful’ – New York Times

‘an unusual and deftly written literary thriller’ – Books & Publishing

‘A challenging novel that pushes against the elastic comfort of the expected’ – Foreword Reviews

 

Short fiction 

‘Small Environmental Changes (light etc.)’ in NOON 2022
‘The Menaced Assassin’ in The Guardian & The Griffith Review
‘Come Back in Ten Years’ in 3:AM Magazine
‘Follower’ in Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Vol. 14
‘About Suffering’, Galley Beggar Press
‘Zenith’, Galley Beggar Press

 

Translations from German 

Red (Hunger) by Senthuran Varatharajah; novel excerpt in The White Review Translation Anthology
‘The Autopsy’ by Georg Heym; short story at Scratch Classics

 

Prizes

 

Regal Beagle

Regal Beagle is a chapter book for younger readers. It’s available in bookshops in Australia, and here.