Q&A: Josh Kemp, Author of Jasper Cliff

Q&A: Josh Kemp, Author of Jasper Cliff

Josh Kemp is no stranger to the Fogarty Literary Awards. He’s previously stood upon the stage at The Edith Spiegeltent to receive his longlisting for Banjawarn – his now award-winning debut novel – which, coincidentally, is in the running for a Western Australian Premier’s Award.

This time Josh has a one in six chance of winning $20,000 and a publishing contract with Fremantle Press for his new manuscript Jasper Cliff. It’s a gothic crime novel that Georgia Richter says ‘piles on the atmosphere and terror’ and is ‘the kind of thing you don’t want to read late at night’.

Josh describes how his character Lachlan’s car breaks down, leaving him marooned in Jasper Cliff, a Pilbara mining town experiencing the death rattles of a soon to be ghost town. You’ll be riveted by the excerpt Josh reads!

 

Buy a copy of Jasper Cliff here.

Publisher details

Jasper Cliff
Author
Josh Kemp
Publisher
Fremantle Press
Genres
Crime Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
Released
03 September, 2024
ISBN
9781760993498

Synopsis

When Toby Bowman vanishes, his brother Lachlan retraces a road trip to the last place Toby phoned from – a remote northern town called Jasper Cliff. There, Lachlan finds himself marooned at the dying town’s pub, and soon learns that his brother is just one of many to have gone missing in recent years. Like Toby, his brother becomes obsessed with finding the Rift, a deep hole in a ravine somewhere in the hills. But what will Lachlan learn, and what will he see, if he stares into the Rift, too?
Josh Kemp
About the author

Josh Kemp

Josh Kemp is an author of Australian gothic fiction. His debut novel, Banjawarn, won the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award, the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Prize for Best Emerging Writer. He lives in the South West of WA but finds himself drawn, over and over again, to the red dirt of the state’s north.

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