New Edition Bookshop is proud to host award-winning local writer Gillian O'Shaughnessy in Fremantle, celebrating the release of her debut flash fiction collection, Salt City Runaway. 

Helen Garner moves into a letterbox. Dead bats rain from the sky. A woman offers Lou Reed her last cigarette at a suburban bus stop. In fifty piercing stories, Salt City Runaway introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who disrupt and delight.

From Western Australia’s port city of Fremantle, to its red-dusted Goldfields and wave-washed South West, women and girls fight for recognition and solace. Slippery, complicated, tender and broken, they carry their humanity in vivid, strange worlds. Salt City Runaway is a luminous debut that reveals beauty and wonder in the smallest of stories. It is a masterclass in flash fiction.

Gillian will be in conversation with Laura Keenan from Night Parrot Press. Book sales and signings available on the night. Nibbles provided and drinks available from the bar. Tickets are $10 and available through the link below.