Bonfire Books

Publisher of books, temper aristocratic; bias Australian. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED

[Bonfire Books @BooksBonfire]

ANNOUNCEMENT! COMING October 2026! A yet to be titled novel by Jack Cuthbertson aka @bookclubhell666 "Book Club From Heaven".

Rock band Atlas & The Shruggers rule the world with monumental aesthetics. Benighted Tasmania is the lone holdout.

Schizoid fiction at its INSANEST!

[Caleb Caudell @LitMiddle]

“Man, I spend too much time on my phone, maybe I’ll check out a contemporary novel”

*opens book*

“He scrolled on his phone through the night and into the morning, bored, disgusted, aroused, and went to work texting in traffic, and why do they call it a phone, really”

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Our editor-in-chief Lucas Smith's book Spare Us Yet & Other Stories published not by us but by @WisebloodBooks was recently reviewed very favourably @firstthingsmag (link in reply). Pick up a copy at the Wiseblood website!

[Caleb Caudell @LitMiddle]

Time for the final read through before publication

[Hugo @lowlandsapien]

Australias last whaling captain, Ches Stubbs in Albany WA had a peg leg and was known as Ahab. 1970s.

[Caleb Caudell @LitMiddle]

Individualism and youth worship culminate in hatred of the young; when a generation or two ages out, they loathe those behind them, and rather than wanting better for descendants, they enjoy seeing them as suffer, out of envy for those who still have the most prized quality

[Tobe Ellen @thebarrowpod]

⚡️NEW GUEST EPISODE OUT NOW⚡️
I sat down with author Jack Norman (@Thingol2006) to talk about his short story collection Sleep Capricorn, out now with @BooksBonfire.
https://t.co/ovwCXGVBGX

[Em_Ess @teo_ess]

Great piece here by Lucas Smith. To my great shame, I am not as well-versed in Miles Franklin, but in Modern Australia her name’s invoked by people who don’t understand her and whom she’d absolutely despise. This is the Australian feminist version of James Baldwin, whose talent and legacy has been completely “wokewashed” by race grifters.

https://t.co/gDsUjsodQp

[Hugo @lowlandsapien]

Some of you guys in your 20s and 30s with free time need to adventure and then post footage for us all from:
The BungleBungles
Macquarie Island
The Torres Strait
Kalkajacka
The left hand side of Cape York, north and/or south of Weipa

[Tobe Ellen @thebarrowpod]

⚡️NEW GUEST EPISODE OUT NOW⚡️
I sat down with author Jack Norman (@Thingol2006) to talk about his short story collection Sleep Capricorn, out now with @BooksBonfire.
https://t.co/ovwCXGVBGX

[Em_Ess @teo_ess]

This is definitely part of the issue but is often used to run cover for the poor and self-serving quality of cultural curation. Talented people are finding their audience overseas (in places no less "neoliberal") because untalented people with no taste dominate local institutions. It's a shame.

[Em_Ess @teo_ess]

You may not be aware, but not only has Australia de-industrialised, offshored its material industries, it also seems to have offshored its best new writing.

This is something of a function of the internet (potential readers no longer confined within national borders), but the most important writers in this country are either a) not published by local publishers (either self-pubbed or overseas presses) or b) published by presses here but all the buzz generated, audiences garnered and critical praise rendered occurs beyond these shores.

Every smart, engaging Australian writer doesn’t put too much stock in the industry here. And it’s got nothing to do with “muh dum Trent Dalton audience” and everything to do with the degeneration of taste among our cultural gatekeepers, the majority of which, I’m sorry to say, are glorified HR ladies, mumming at being well-read, erudite citizens. This is happening elsewhere, of course, but here it takes on an especially egregious form.

I’ve spoken about this before briefly (on @bradkelly's pod, on my own pod, and in an upcoming roundtable hosted by @RussellWalterrr alongside Lewis Woolston, Jack Norman, Ivan Niccolai, Liam Blackford & @JustinIsis1) but perhaps I will elaborate one day…with receipts.

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Join us TOMORROW NIGHT at the State Library of Tasmania to launch Landscape Written In His Face: People, Places and Ideas in the Life and Work of Christopher Koch. Details here: https://t.co/qH9T28yhnE

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[Bonfire Books @BooksBonfire]

Landscape Written In His Face by Jamie Grant is now available for overseas readers through Amazon. Link in reply.

[Em_Ess @teo_ess]

https://t.co/utS59dNpwB

[Mid Thirties Manhattan Guy @Mid30sManhattan]

I demand to know who roofied my 9th Negroni

[Em_Ess @teo_ess]

Here's the collaborative piece MMM quotes btw
https://t.co/V6cVFOJ1q2

[Em_Ess @teo_ess]

Got a nice shout out in The Monthly last week from Martin McKenzie-Murray
https://t.co/aLfgD9MryZ

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Three more days to get the pre-order discount!

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Pre-order Landscape Written in His Face here: https://t.co/MRGuzUTUlw