Trouble in Mind

by Jack Ross

Trouble in Mind is an intense voyage into the life of a young woman, and a serious reflection upon the art of novel-writing. It is at once a twenty-first century novel and not a novel at all, but an eyeball, subject and object, made up of a million cells.

"Experimental, assured, contemporary and local, Trouble in Mind is a healthy new leaf in the old stick of New Zealand lit." — Katherine Liddy, Landfall #214

93 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 1, 2020

About the author

Jack Ross retired from his job as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University in 2022. He has published six books of poems, three novellas, three novels - Nights with Giordano Bruno (2000), The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis (2006) and EMO (2008) - and three collections of short fiction, most recently Haunts (2024). Ross has also edited a number of anthologies and literary journals, including Landfall and Poetry New Zealand.

Michael Steven has described him as a "maverick translator", while Michael Morrissey had this to say about him: "Tired of airport books? Bored by Tom Clancy and Dan Brown? Wearied by puerile web sites? Seeking a challenge? Try a 'novel' by Dr Jack Ross" -- Investigate.

His novel-as-twin-novellas, The Annotated Tree Worship (2017), was highly commended in the 2018 NZSA Heritage Book Awards. He blogs at mairangibay.blogspot.com.