Cover art for Firelight
Published
Text Publishing, August 2023
ISBN
9781922790378
Format
Softcover, 256 pages
Dimensions
23.4cm × 15.3cm

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An imprisoned man with strange visions writes letters to his sister.

A controversial business tycoon leaves his daughter a mysterious inheritance.

A child is haunted by a green man with a message about the origins of their planet.

In this striking collection of stories, the award-winning John Morrissey investigates colonialism and identity without ever losing sight of his characters' humanity. Brilliantly imagined and masterfully observed, Firelight marks the debut of a writer we will be reading for decades to come.

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