{"product_id":"salt-city-runaway","title":"Salt City Runaway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelen Garner moves into a letterbox. Dead bats rain from the sky. A woman offers Lou Reed her last cigarette at a suburban bus stop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn fifty piercing stories, Salt City Runaway introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who disrupt and delight.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Western Australia’s port city of Fremantle, to its red-dusted Goldfields and wave-washed South West, women and girls fight for recognition and solace. Slippery, complicated, tender and broken, they carry their humanity in vivid, strange worlds.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSalt City Runaway\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a luminous debut that reveals beauty and wonder in the smallest of stories. It is a masterclass in flash fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGillian O’Shaughnessy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Australia’s most celebrated flash fiction writer and a highly respected journalist and broadcaster. Her work has appeared in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest Small Fictions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eanthologies (2023–2025) and has won international prizes. A former ABC journalist and broadcaster, she has spent three decades interviewing some of the world’s most prominent authors and thinkers. Gillian is a sub-editor at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmokeLong Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, teaches masterclasses in flash fiction, and is serving as a 2026 Stella Prize judge. Drawing from a lifetime of storytelling—from radio to stage to page—\u003cstrong\u003eSalt City Runaway\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis Gillian’s first book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gillian O’Shaughnessy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62842871316639,"sku":null,"price":27.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0394\/7236\/5727\/files\/BC-Salt-City-Runaway_OShaughnessy-NPP-1024x1024.png?v=1785735918","url":"https:\/\/lanebook.com.au\/products\/salt-city-runaway","provider":"The Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}