The Season for Flying Saucers | Brendan Colley
About
A father who has been abducted by aliens; a mother who sees the spirits of dead people; a sister who communicates with angry dogs; and 29-year-old Noah Grey, whose life has gone off the rails.In Tasmania, strange lights appear in the skies every summer, signalling we’re part of something bigger than the world of our worries. Bigger even than our hopes. When economic pressures force the Greys to live together for one season – the first time in twelve years since Noah left home after college – tensions are high.
Things get weird as locals become increasingly convinced the residents at this Hobart address have been targeted for alien abduction. As the summer unfolds Noah accepts things will never be normal again, even though his measure is the simplest of all. Family love.
‘Brendan Colley is writing the kind of book I want to be reading: joyous, weird, sad and loving, and with a sustained undercurrent of real kindness and real humanity. I love the slightly unhinged premise that a novel about family, community, and a poet adrift in his life is also absolutely about flying saucers, and Colley weaves the ideas together in a way that makes you think, Ah, of course.’
Kate Kruimink, author of Heartsease and A Treacherous Country.
Brendan Colley was born in South Africa, and made Tasmania his home in 2009. His first novel, The Signal Line, won the Unpublished Manuscript Prize in the 2019 Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Awards, and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and The Age Book of the Year Awards. The Season for Flying Saucers is his second novel. He lives in Hobart with his wife.
In conversation with Brendan is Adam Ouston. Adam is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and the recipient of the 2014 Erica Bell Literary Award as well as the manuscript prize at the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Awards in 2017. He holds a PhD and has worked as a copywriter, editor and bookseller. As a musician he performs as Costume. He lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
Join Brendan and Adam at the Afterword Cafe.
Location
Fullers Bookshop
131 Collins Street, Hobart TAS 7000
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The Season for Flying Saucers | Brendan Colley
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