Edwina Preston

When brothers Arcadia and Otto Cirque arrive in a fading gold-mining town with their travelling circus, Saturnalia, the town and the life of young Mary Ann Ward will never be the same. Months later, the flamboyant Arcadia Cirque is found dead, a pregnant Mary Ann Ward goes missing, and Otto Cirque sets off in pursuit of her. These dramatic events...

Sororicidal didn't so much move me as arrest me. It stopped me in my tracks. A far more powerful thing. - Angela O'Keeffe A punk-gothic historical novel in which sisterhood is the defining experience of two women's lives - and also the potential death of them. Well-born Mary and Margot are raised on a vineyard estate above Adelaide in the...