(2026) Novel
BRUTALITY WORE THE BADGE
BIGOTRY WROTE THE LAW
Sydney, 1942: a city in wartime.
Nightclubs are raided, the sly-grog trade thrives and public toilets become the hunting grounds for corrupt police running an entrapment scheme.
As journalists, lawyers and establishment figures close in on this scandal, figures from the city’s queer demi-monde must reckon with how to survive in dangerous times.
A blistering, standalone companion to the best-selling Iris, The trap is a historical novel which challenges conventional readings of our past, richly reimagining it through the eyes of its most marginalised through to its most powerful.