Published by Brow Books, Australia, April 2018- ANZ rights only. 
UK, Commpnwealth, North American and world rights available

Modernity, art, family, gender, drugs, music, adolescence, business, religion, internet cafes, food, strangers, aesthetics, vacations, fashion, desires, dreams, expectations, brown couches.

An unpredictable and innovative debut novel from a provocative new voice in Australian fiction. Embracing the noir tradition and featuring a prose style quite unlike any before—with references that will go both over your head and under your feet—Pink Mountain on Locust Island will flip readers upside down and turn your understanding of the world around you around.

Pink Mountain on Locust Island is:

a)  a subterranean noir of the most electronic generation – the pink-white bursts of a teenaged nomad;

b)  a fizzing of the New Wave underground art province, with its melting pot of noise bands and Phife, amnesiac and digitalised bossa novas, and art installations about art installations;

c)  a 24-hour yank between pulverised English, elastic Cantonese and the newest, digitalised dialect of transcultural landscapes;

d)  a short novel narrated among the lumps of Monk’s daydreams, her violent, claustrophobic encounters, and her staccato movements through a hyperreal pop culture world that could only belong to our 21st century;

e)  all of the above.

Pre-empted by Lee Brackstone for Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Robert Watkins for Hachette Australia- they will publish in 2021 – edited ms. due in 6 months. 

The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centers, rows of estates and thematically designed neighborhoods.

Twenty-four-year-old Leen is going to open an ear-cleaning and massage studio in the Topic Heights Shopping Centre, taking her mother’s Chinese ritual to the West to bring people back to their bodies.

But something is not quite right in Par Mars. Managers are being attacked, and when Leen befriends Jean Paul, a pharmacist who is obsessed with a cryptic online forum, she finds herself involved in a community that is intent on disrupting the routines of capitalism in increasingly troubling ways.

With a fierce intellect and masterful storytelling, Jamie Marina Lau brings to life a world that is devastatingly close to our own. Taking aim at consumerism and class, orientalism and the Zen movement, violence and middle-class boredom, Gunk Baby is inventive, unforgettable and from a voice younger, newer and more critical than most.