Looking forward to this chat with Rachael Brown on Wed 12 July. Tix available now 👇🏼

I answered a few questions about Southern Aurora thx to The Wheeler Centre👇🏼👇🏼 .. looking forward to the chat with the excellent sarahbaileyauthor (some tix still left The Wheeler Centre or link in bio) 🙏🏼 Melbourne City Reads Hill of Content

Read #SouthernAurora in one sitting & just wanted to give Jimmy a big hug Mark Brandi once again truly gets you in the head of a child when the world can be so monstrous & unjust & yet so full of small wonders & hope. Could not stop reading Hachette Australia Books

If you’re in Sydney next Thurs 20th July, I’ll be Better Read Books chatting with Ashley Kalagian Blunt about my new book, Southern Aurora. Tix: betterreadevents.com/events/souther…. Hope to see you there! 🙏🏼 Hachette Australia Books

Mark Brandi chats about his new book Southern Aurora 💛 Dani & Mark chat about allowing people to come as they are and allowing people the space to tell their stories without judgement. ALWAYS love chatting to Mark Brandi podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/wor…

QBD Books' Vic and Lee review Mark Brandi's Southern Aurora: 'Mark Brandi's done a great job of getting into the mind of a 12-year-old.' Take a look: youtube.com/watch?v=UUp18g… Southern Aurora is out now.

So good to attend the Sydney launch of Mark Brandi latest brilliant release Southern Aurora. Hosted perfectly by Ashley Kalagian Blunt

Thanks to Daniel Herborn 🧐 for his careful read and thoughtful review of Southern Aurora in The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald 👇🏼👇🏼

I had the great privilege of chatting with @rfidler on his superb Conversations program on ABC Radio National. We talked about my Italian family history, experience of (and with) the justice system, and how I came to writing .. 👇🏼👇🏼 abc.net.au/radio/programs…

.The Sydney Morning Herald reviewed Mark Brandi's Southern Aurora: 'Those who enjoyed Brandi’s previous works will be absorbed by the quietly riveting, emotionally potent Southern Aurora; it finds new wrinkles in Brandi’s brutal but tender evocation of life on the margins' smh.com.au/culture/books/…

Was great to chat with Katy @leafbookshop about Southern Aurora (and some other stuff … ) 👇🏼

Available now in #largeprint and #audio! 🚂 Jimmy is a kid growing up fast on the poorest street in town who tries to do everything right. But, Jimmy soon learns that even when you get things right, everything can still go wrong... Mark Brandi

Plus! We’ve got comedian @rhysnicholson’s Letter to My Younger Self, cartoonist and author Kaz Cooke demystifying menopause, and Melbourne writer Mark Brandi on the dog-darn privilege of loving (and losing) a real-life pooch. thebigissue.org.au/issue/a-i-pets

My essay for The Big Issue Australia is now available to read on their website 👇🏼👇🏼 Do pick up a copy from your local vendor too - it’s a great edition. Also a shout out to Stafford Rescue Victoria, who cared for Millie before she came into our lives ♥️

Nice surprise seeing Southern Aurora among those highly commended. Congrats to the shortlist, and thanks to Van Rad Stacey & Hachette Australia Books 🙏🏼🙏🏼 PS - you can vote in the People’s Choice Award & lpotentially win some books: wheelercentre.wufoo.com/forms/m1ugmc1z…

I have this piece in today's GoodWeekendMag on the role of luck in our lives (with thanks to Greg Callaghan). theage.com.au/national/get-l…

“We need it. Too many of us are dying.” The Age visited the city’s laneways to speak to those most affected by the state government’s decision to abandon plans for a safe injecting room theage.com.au/national/victo…