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The Book of the After
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Expected 29 Sep 26Imagine a book that could tell us what happens after we die.
In 2049, The Book of the After has become a cult classic, and Negus Kebede has always wondered if what it says is true.
His name means ‘king’ in his mother tongue but, following a great loss, Negus is a reluctant leader – for what is a king without his queen?
If The Book of the After is right, then they could be reunited. But a would-be assassin is haunting him, determined to alter Negus’ destiny, and that of the country he loves.
Crossing centuries and continents, space and time, this is a love story for the ages – and everything after.
In 2049, The Book of the After has become a cult classic, and Negus Kebede has always wondered if what it says is true.
His name means ‘king’ in his mother tongue but, following a great loss, Negus is a reluctant leader – for what is a king without his queen?
If The Book of the After is right, then they could be reunited. But a would-be assassin is haunting him, determined to alter Negus’ destiny, and that of the country he loves.
Crossing centuries and continents, space and time, this is a love story for the ages – and everything after.
560 pages, Paperback
Expected publication September 29, 2026
About the author
Rebecca Higgie
4 books21 followersRebecca Higgie is a writer from Perth, Western Australia. Her whole life has been spent in the company of books, with careers in libraries and universities. Formerly an academic at Curtin University and Brunel University London, she has published research on satire and politics. She has worked in the stacks of the State Library of Western Australia and fostered childhood literacy as the Library Officer at Guildford Primary, WA’s oldest public school. Her creative work combines whimsy and play with extensive research and critical insights. Her stories and poems have appeared in publications such as Westerly, Stories of Perth and Visible Ink. Her novel The History of Mischief won the 2019 Fogarty Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.
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September 19, 2026Recommended!
This is quite the epic read. Impossible to put into a single genre it combines the soul of The Odyssey, with mythology from other sources. It is political fiction and climate fiction. It is deeply historical and also speculative - set in the near and far futures. It is a story of love and death and what it means to be eternal. It is the Faustian bargain we unwittingly enter into when we are famous or infamous. And brilliantly it centres on Perth and Canberra and Melbourne while spanning the globe. This publishes at the end of September or early October.
Big books are a hard sell for many. I enjoyed sinking into this one and the pages flew by.
This is quite the epic read. Impossible to put into a single genre it combines the soul of The Odyssey, with mythology from other sources. It is political fiction and climate fiction. It is deeply historical and also speculative - set in the near and far futures. It is a story of love and death and what it means to be eternal. It is the Faustian bargain we unwittingly enter into when we are famous or infamous. And brilliantly it centres on Perth and Canberra and Melbourne while spanning the globe. This publishes at the end of September or early October.
Big books are a hard sell for many. I enjoyed sinking into this one and the pages flew by.
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