Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from the mid-west town of Geraldton on the central coast of Western Australia. He is also a previous recipient of the Mary Grant Bruce Award as part of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) National Literary Awards and his short fiction and non-fiction have been published widely online and in print.

His debut novel, The Windy Season, was shortlisted for the 2014 Australian/Vogel’s literary Award. He is currently living in Darwin on Australia’s Northern Territory coast lecturing in creative writing at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Higher Education.

Award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things Charlotte Wood, says: “Sam Carmody is a real literary talent, with an artist’s inquiring mind and a natural feel for the beauty and toughness of language. ”

A young fisherman is missing from the crayfish boats in the West Australian town of Stark.

There’s no trace at all of Elliot, there hasn’t been for some weeks and Paul, his younger brother, is the only one who seems to be active in the search.

Taking Elliot’s place on the boat skippered by their troubled cousin, Paul soon learns how many opportunities there are to get lost in those many thousands of kilometres of lonely coastline.

Fierce, evocative and memorable, this is an Australian story set within an often wild and unforgiving sea, where mysterious influences are brought to bear on the inhospitable town and its residents.

The Windy Season, by Sam Carmody,is available from Dymocks.

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