My new novella Landfall is now available for both the Kindle and the Kobo – and you can now also read an extract on the Paper Road Press website.
Here’s an extract from the extract:
Wife gone, son lost to cholera back in the camps before he had lived out his first year, Nasimul shivered and heaved up his food and crawled into a nest of damp clothing night after night, and somehow survived. The ship drove forward. The temperature warmed fractionally. The sky flamed red at dawn and dusk: ash and smoke from Australia, someone said. Perhaps the whole continent was burning.
And then, on another night of storm and cloud, the New Zealand Navy came, destroyers surging over the eastern horizon. There was no point in running, and nowhere to run. The Jamalpur-2 wallowed in the waves and waited for the end, while the people aboard made for the last slender hope, the lifeboats.
You can find out whether Nasimul Rahman makes it ashore – and what happens next – in Landfall.
And don’t forget to check out the full Shortcuts series of novellas.