Dusk
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  • Published: 7 August 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529957402
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

Dusk

  • Robbie Arnott
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Vivid and dramatic, DUSK is an atmospheric and page-turning novel following twins Iris and Floyd as they track a beautiful but deadly puma in the remote highlands of Tasmania

'A sublime novel of loss and redemption, fight and surrender, that left me in absolute awe ... Arnott asserts himself as one of Australia's finest literary writers’ Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites

Set in a remote, cold mountain landscape sometime during the nineteenth century, DUSK follows thirty-seven year old Iris Renshaw and her chronically injured twin brother, Floyd: orphaned children of convicts whose parents’ crimes made them nomadic outcasts.

Riding to the highlands in flight of their reputation and in desperate need of work, they find a town of merino farmers devastated by years of attacks from giant, man-killing pumas. The farmers had originally imported the pumas from South America with the idea of keeping deer under control, but the pumas instead decimated their sheep, slaughtered men and disappeared into the jungle. Now, one puma is left. Her name is Dusk, and there is a bounty on her head.

When Iris hears about Dusk from the charismatic and mysterious tracker Patrick Lees, she quickly realises that her only chance could be to partner with Lees in the hunt for Dusk. But Floyd is unable to move fast, and he distrusts Lees . . .

'Magnificent' TIM WINTON, author of Juice

'Starkly beautiful and deeply felt ... the pared-back textures of Dusk’s prose occasionally recall those of Cormac McCarthy' Guardian (Australia)
  • Published: 7 August 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529957402
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99
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Praise for Dusk

'Dusk is a sublime novel of loss and redemption, fight and surrender, that left me in absolute awe. Robbie Arnott's prose is incandescent, his storytelling mythic and filled with a wisdom that extends beyond the page. With Dusk, he asserts himself as one of Australia's finest literary writers'

Hannah Kent, author of BURIAL RITES

'Magnificent'

Tim Winton, author of Juice

'Starkly beautiful and deeply felt... Dusk is a book about love: not just the love between the twins but the love they feel for the landscape… the pared-back textures of Dusk’s prose… recall those of Cormac McCarthy'

Guardian (Australia)

'A Conrad-like storyteller whose tales always tremble on the edge of the mythic and legendary'

Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark

'One of Australia’s finest writers'

Sisonke Msimang, author of The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela

'Arnott has an eye and an ear for description that can elevate otherwise quiet moments to something genuinely transcendent'

Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley

'Everything [in Dusk]…is drawn vividly, not least the stunning, monumental landscape: a character in itself, it seems to nod to past crimes and extinctions… an absorbing adventure'

Daily Mail

'Arnott… writes with tenderness about characters and passion about the lands through they move. A stunner'

The Times