Books written by Nick Earls

  • Bjelke Blues: Stories of Repression and Resistance in Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland
    Bjelke Blues: Stories of Repression and Resistance in Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland

    Anthology of short stories by various writers, telling some of the serious, silly, and surreal aspects of life in Queensland during the politically turbulent 1960s-80s.

  • Two to Go: A Novel
    Two to Go: A Novel

    It's framed . It's a medical report and it says ' Phoebe Harris's report : pulse good , knees good , blood warm . ' Things like that . ” “ That is so sweet . ” “ It's goddamn embarrassing . And where does sweet get you ?

  • After Summer
    After Summer

    Alex Delaney, an Australian teenager feels bored while vacationing at his mother's beach house and is worried about passing his final examinations until he meets an attractive local girl.

  • 48 Shades of Brown
    48 Shades of Brown

    While his parents are in Geneva, sixteen-year-old Dan spends his last year of high school living with his twenty-two-year-old bass-playing aunt, Jacq, and her beautiful friend Naomi, whose active lovelife is audible through the wall between ...

  • The Fix
    The Fix

    Now he's home in Brisbane, and this time the job is supposed to be good news. The client is a law firm, the talent is Ben Harkin, and the story is the Star of Courage B...

  • Empires
    Empires

    This is Nick Earls at his finest. The pace of the novel may seem frenetic. Actually it is quite domestic and it is beautifully written.

  • Merlo Girls (Storycuts)
    Merlo Girls (Storycuts)

    Here, Earls perfectly captures both the awkwardness of these friendships by association and the unease often felt in these kinds of cooler-than-thou establishments. -- David Messer

  • New Boy
    New Boy

    Adjusting to a new country and a new school was never going to be easy for Herschelle.

  • Solid Gold

    Omnibus - Solid Gold, Bachelor kisses, Perfect skin - in one volume.