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 Linda Martin. 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.