The Unfair Dinkum

The Unfair Dinkum (2026)

Incunabula Media

"Welcome to The Living Library, also known as the Flesh and Blood Lending Facility. Here people do not check out books, but actual writers. You check them out, take them home for a few weeks, and then bring them back. If the writer is dead, you check out a sack of his remains.

Sounds reasonable, the sort of place anyone would want to work. And our narrator is fairly happy, until one day his routine is disrupted by Joey Rue, an Australian writer who has the impertinence to check himself out of the library and precipitate an adventure which takes him, and our narrator, across vast tracts of perilous land in search of the ‘Unfair Dinkum’.

And what is that?

You need to read the book to find out, cobber."

With an Introduction by Brian Evenson.

Trumpet Strudel Mineshafts

Trumpet Strudel Mineshafts (2026)
Gibbon Moon Books

Eighteen one-act plays featuring castaways, cowboys, duellists, pandas, pilots, twiddlers, cyclists, phantoms, eccentric academics, angry bears, jazz musicians, mystic gorillas, philosophers, hippies, madmen, and many more strange characters. Written for people and puppets, for dreamers and schemers, and intended for the page as well as the stage.

“If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.” — SAMUEL R. DELANY

“It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.” — JEFF VANDERMEER

Contents:

The Universal Set * Dr Oxygen and Mr Hydrogen * The Modesty Men * The Wallah * The Dessert Isle * Like a Rhino Cowboy * Balconies * Pandemonium * The Plane Play * Twiddling * Uneasy Rider * Three Friends * The Pendulum * Pursued by a Bear * The Jazz Strumpet * The Mystic Gorilla * The End of the Road * The Grass