Doorways For the Dispossessed

by Paul Haines

Follow murderous trails into the bloody foothills of Kathmandu; destroy yourself with obsessive sexual jealousies; disappear into the drug-hazed dust of the Baluchistan desert; and share health-conscious recipes with a gourmet cannibal. Read Paul Haines's dark, hard-edged fantasies about real people dealing with strong emotions in impossible situations and experience the paranoia, fear and lust that lurks in the shadowy recesses of the human soul.

284 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2006

About the author

Paul Haines was raised in the 1970s in the wrong part of Auckland, New Zealand and moved to Australia in the 1990s. Having vowed to never call it home, he now lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter.

His first two collections were shortlisted for Australian speculative fiction awards, and one of them managed to nab the New Zealand award for Best Collection and the other the Australian Ditmar for Best Collection. His third collection is due out in 2010.

Paul survived the inaugural Clarion South in 2004 and has won the Aurealis, Ditmar and Sir Julius Vogel awards for his writing.

Lately he has been fighting cancer...