Dr. Kathleen Jennings’ haunted subtropical novel Honeyeater, set in something not quite but very like Brisbane, will be published in Australia by Picador on 16 September (released by Tor in the USA on 2 September).
Honeyeater will be launched at Avid Reader on 17 September — details here: https://avidreader.com.au/pages/12111-KathleenJennings-Honeyeater
T. Kingfisher, author of A Sorceress Comes to Call, described it as 'Lush and atmospheric, this is an elegant cocktail of flood water and gum trees and secrets that refuse to stay safely drowned. Gorgeously written.'
Honeyeater was Kathleen’s PhD project
Sub-tropical Bellworth is founded on floodplains and root-bound secrets. And Charlie, remarkable only for vanished friends and a successful sister, plans to leave for good, as soon as he deals with his dead aunt's house.
Then Grace arrives, with roses pressing up through her skin, and drags Charlie into the ghost-choked mysteries of Bellworth, uncovering the impossible consequences of loss and desire - and a choice Charlie made when he was a boy.
But peeling back the rumours and lies that cocoon the suburb disturbs more than complacent neighbours and lost souls. And Charlie and Grace are forced to a decision that threatens not only their lives, but all they believed those lives could be.
In addition, her 2024 collection Kindling: Stories (Small Beer Press) has been shortlisted for the Locus, Aurealis, Ditmar (twice) and World Fantasy Awards.
