This event has ended.
Join us Tuesday, May 12th for Patrick Marlborough in conversation with Emmett Stinson, celebrating the release of a brand new edition of their novel Nock Loose.
Nock Loose has recently been shortlisted for the 2026 Australian Book Design Awards, shortlisted for the 2023 Fogarty Award, and after selling out two print runs, Fremantle Press is releasing a new edition later this year.
About the book
Joy is a gifted archer, a retired Olympian and former stuntwoman on a cult Japanese tokusatsu show. Raised by a feckless grifter, her home is Bodkins Point, a tiny country town which annually hosts an ultra-violent medieval festival called “Agincourt.” There, the town and the townsfolk’s reality is in a constant state of tug of- war with their elaborate, 150 years running, parallel fiction. In the aftermath of a terrible fire, Joy’s past and the town’s dark history are set on a collision course as she takes the furious road to revenge.
Game of Thrones meets Wake in Fright meets Kill Bill meets The Simpsons — Nock Loose is like nothing else in OzLit.
A book for the chronically online, this is the perfect read to surpass the wildest dreams (and nightmares) of the most dedicated cosplay fanatic.
About the author
Patrick Marlborough is an underemployed writer/comedian/drongo living with their parents in Walyalup, Western Australia. They have been published in Vice, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Slate, Gawker, Meanjin, Crikey, Kotaku, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, Cordite, Going Down Swinging and various other forgotten blogs, magazines and anthologies. The manuscript for their first novel, A Horse Held at Gunpoint, was shortlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award in 2021 and is still looking for a publisher. They are the founder and editor of The Yeah Nah Review, as well as Wharf Rat Press. They co-author all of their work with the ghost of their bad dog, Buckley, who is solely responsible for any problematic elements therein.
Doors from 5pm | Talk from 6pm-7pm
Complimentary for Lawson Flats members. $15 for General Admission.