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like video loops but with added goose-flesh, but it’s prompted three stories already and it still isn’t worn out. Also, walking past Bullen Lane in Melbourne’s CBD, I started thinking about a character who was Circus personified (Bullen’s Circus toured Australia from the 1920s to the 1960s), and who hid himself away in just such a lane during the winter months.

‘Eyelids of the Dawn’ grew out of my commuting by train through Burwood in Sydney’s inner west, looking across to Burwood Plaza, seeing how big it was and how uncomfortable it looked crouched there among all the other shops and houses. Visiting Chennai (as part of the Asialink Literature Touring Program 2007) and walking from the Park Hotel to Marina Beach on our first afternoon in India, and later seeing Spencer Plaza, added significant detail to the story.

Also by MARGO LANAGAN

WINNER

Victorian Premier’s Literary Award,

Young Adult Fiction

Ditmar Award, Best Collection

World Fantasy Award, Collection

Michael L. Printz Honor Book,

American Library Association

Black Juice is a book of breathtaking stories that defy boundaries. They are dazzling, ruthless, tender, fierce, unique – ten deeply moving stories from an exceptional author.

‘A good short story, a really good one, is deceptively difficult to write. Which is why Black Juice is such an outstanding collection. Because every single story in it is, quite simply, perfect. That’s what I said: perfect.’

OUTLAND, UK

WINNER

CBCA Book of the Year,

Older Readers

SHORT-LISTED

Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

LONG-LISTED

Frank O’Connor International

Short Story Award

‘Lanagan is in a class of her own.’

THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN

‘The genius (not too strong a word) of Margo Lanagan is her ability to reach into darkness and return with something both different and powerfully convincing. It’s astonishing enough to be introduced so abruptly to a writer this good, but even more extraordinary is her seemingly effortless mastery of the short story form and what she proceeds to do with it.’LOCUS, USA

WINNER

Aurealis Award, Best Best Young Adult Story

‘The Queen’s Notice’

SHORT-LISTED

New South Wales Premier’s

Literary Award, Ethel Turner Prize

Ditmar Award, Best Collected Work

Aurealis Convenor’s Award

‘Ten more compelling stories from the author of the much-lauded Black Juice. Taut, vivid, original: another winner.’

THE HORN BOOK, USA

‘Dazzling’

JHON MARSDEN

Table of Contents

COVER PAGE

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT PAGE

CONTENTS

{ THE POINT OF ROSES

{ THE GOLDEN SHROUD

{ A FINE MAGIC

{ AN HONEST DAY’S WORK

{ INTO THE CLOUDS ON HIGH

{ NIGHT OF THE FIRSTLINGS

{ FERRYMAN

{ HEADS

{ LIVING CURIOSITIES

{ EYELIDS OF THE DAWN