Forthcoming

His Stupid Boyhood

August 2013: Penguin will publish 'His Stupid Boyhood' a comic memoir of childhood.


Wish

Also in August 2013: Text Publishing will reissue Peter's 1995 novel Wish in their Text Classics series. with an introduction by James Bradley.

January 2014: HarperCollins will republish Maestro in their Angus&Robertson Australian Classics series.

Latest Release: Gravel

Gravel (2010)

Gravel (2010)

New short stories by Peter Goldsworthy, published by Penguin Hamish Hamilton, to be launched at Adelaide Writers Week on March 1st 2010, by J M Coetzee.

Eight brilliant stories by a master of the form, author of the classic Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam and The Kiss.

A contented woman finds herself considering a bizarre sexual invitation that just days before filled her with scorn. A mediocre man is pulled into a strange dance with his stalker. A father gives his daughter a Christmas present with a disturbing history. An ugly sports parent plays a game of ridiculous chance. A young boy's music lesson offers him a discordant insight into adult behaviour. And in a primal tale about the borderline between animals and humans, death is horrifyingly not the end of the story...

Compulsively readable, pitch-perfect in mood, Gravel ponders the forces that can wear down a marriage, darken desire, lead people to thwart their best intentions.