EVENT: Conversations on The Styx—modern Australian gothic novel—CQUniversity Bird Cage Bar, Rockhampton, Qld, book signing and reading: Wed Dec 6 from 12 noon.

CROCODILES, bull sharks and other Styx-like creatures surf the tidal bore but never at your command. They laugh if you try to organise your paltry life around theirs. Their lives dance to the harmony of the Goddess Invulnerable. They dance in gravitational attraction: they will dance at The Styx. Soon.

The Styx—a modern Australian gothic novel: published by Lacuna Publishing. Out now—ask at your favourite bookshop.