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Australian suburban gothic stories
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An award-winning collection of fourteen unnerving stories of the Australian suburbs. The Australian suburbs are stranger than they seem - sun-bleached streets haunted by memory, cul‑de‑sacs edged with bushland that watches back, and homes where dangers lurk behind familiar fences. Between neighbours who know too much,...
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An award-winning collection of fourteen unnerving stories of the Australian suburbs.
The Australian suburbs are stranger than they seem - sun-bleached streets haunted by memory, cul‑de‑sacs edged with bushland that watches back, and homes where dangers lurk behind familiar fences. Between neighbours who know too much, houses that hum with memories best forgotten, and bushfire smoke seeping into backyards, this collection of short fiction reveals the quiet anxieties that shape our domestic lives.
Subversive, intimate and darkly imaginative, Common Places drags these quiet streets into the light, revealing a gothic noir landscape where the familiar turns unsettling - reminding us that the most terrifying things are often the ones that feel closest to home.
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ISBN: 9780702271267
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 September 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 1.0mm
Width: 1.0mm
Height: 1.0mm
Weight: 1g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Gillian Hagenus is one of the organisers of the Australian Short Story Festival and worked for three years as an editor at MidnightSun Publishing in Adelaide. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing, and her work has been shortlisted and longlisted for a number of awards, including Boroondara, Djillong, Nielma Sidney and Peter Carey short story awards. She is the editor of the short story anthology Strangely Enough (2023). Common Places won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in 2025; it is her first collection of short fiction.
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