Tegan Bennett Daylight

Elizabeth has fallen in love in her early adulthood, but with a lack of conviction and disturbing results. A little damaged, in her late twenties she embarks on a new affair with Ross, a fellow academic at her university. Their relationship blooms and offers her protection and security, for which she's been searching since she stopped being a child. She...

When four friends find themselves thrown back in time to 1985, how will they handle being teens in their parents’ era? And will they ever get back to the future? It takes Shannon a while to work out what’s happened. She went into the cinema in 2025 and came back out… in 1985? Somehow she’s travelled forty years back in...

Six teenagers. An empty shopping centre. No Wi-Fi. And … a baby? Acclaimed author Tegan Bennett Daylight’s first novel for young adults reconceives Lord of the Flies for Gen Z. Shortlisted, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Sydney Morning Herald Best Reads of the Year for 2023 The Guardian Best Australian Children’s Books of 2023...

Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Awards The Details is a book about the connections we form with literature and each other. Tegan Bennett Daylight has led a life in books – as a writer, a teacher, and a critic, but first and foremost as a reader. In this deeply insightful and intimate work, Daylight describes how her reading...

Six Bedrooms is about growing up; about discovering sex; and about coming of age. Full of glorious angst, embarrassment, and small achievements. Hot afternoons on school ovals, the terrifying promise of losing your virginity, sneaking booze from your mother's pantry, the painful sophistication and squalor of your first share house, cancer, losing a parent. Tegan Bennett Daylight's powerful collection captures...