Sleepers Publishing

Sleepers is a publishing house advocating for new and established writers in Australia.

Big new 2013

This year we turn ten AND we have three outstanding debut novels coming out as well as a brand spanking new Almanac. The first novel, Inheritance, by Balli Kaur Jaswal was launched to great critical acclaim in February. Then in March, pack your bags for Short Story Heaven, because The Sleepers Almanac No. 8 will be hitting your shelves. Next up, in July, we have Holy Bible, the hilarious and heartbreaking debut by Vanessa Russell; and then in September we are bringing you Eleanor Limprecht’s powerful, piercing What Was Left. So much to look forward to. Charge those Kindles/iPhones/Kobos/eyes and fingers!

In the meantime, you can always get a good deal on Sleepers books here, with free postage. Check out the shop.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • July 4 2013

    Sleepers launches Holy Bible, Vanessa Russell’s astonishing debut novel.

    Thursday July 4th
    6pm for 6.30
    At the Wesley Anne – 250 High St, Northcote
    Launched by Winnie Salaman
    Bookshop by Readings
    All welcome.

    ‘Russell’s writing combines grace and poignancy with a prosaic deadpan matter-of-factness that is frequently astonishing and bitterly funny in a tale about how family and history forms us and the stories we live in, while celebrating the chances we are offered to begin anew and choose differently. This is an intelligent and strikingly generous novel.’
    —Kalinda Ashton

    ‘Brilliant. Loved it. Read it in one go. Some of it was horribly familiar, despite not knowing a thing about the religion. I guess all Christian churches, no matter how whacky, share essential DNA. The portrait of the family, especially the psycho father, makes it the perfect antipodean counterpart to the psycho mother in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson.’
    —Sue-Ann Post