Trent Dalton

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Gravity Let Me Go: The astonishing new novel from the bestselling author of BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE and LOLA IN THE MIRROR

Trent Dalton, Australia's #1 bestselling author, returns with the astonishing Gravity Let Me Go - a story you won't ever forget.

How will you ever know how the story ends, if you let the story go?

Noah Cork has just published the scoop of a lifetime: the white-hot true crime book of the cold-blooded killer who slipped an unfolding murder mystery into his mailbox. But if this is his moment of triumph, then why is the tin roof being ripped from the walls of his reality? Why are skeletons standing upright in his closet? Why do people want to run him over in the street? And why does his wife keep writing a cryptic message across the bathroom mirror? As a severe storm cell heads towards Brisbane, Noah is hurtling headfirst into a swirling storm of secrets. He must now cling for dear life to the only story that ever really mattered. He must hold on to the truth. He must hold on to the story. He must hold on to love.

Dark, gritty, hilarious and unexpected, Gravity Let Me Go is Trent Dalton's deeply personal exploration of marriage and ambition; truth-telling and truth-omitting; self-deception and self-preservation. It's a novel about the stories we want to tell the world and those we shouldn't, and how the stories we keep locked away are so often the stories that come to define us.

It's the story of a murder.

It's the story of a marriage.

It's the story of a lifetime.

About the author

Trent Dalton is a two-time Walkley Award–winning journalist and the international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies, Love Stories and Lola in the Mirror.

Lola in the Mirror was the winner of the 2024 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the 2023 QBD Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Dymocks 2023 Book of the Year, the 2024 Indie Book Awards, the 2024 Book People Fiction Book of the Year and the 2024 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award. It has sold over 320,000 copies across all formats since publication in October 2023.

The Boy Swallows Universe television series, which aired in January 2024, was Netflix’s most successful Australian-made show to date. It ranked in the top 10 in 52 countries and reached the number one spot in Australia, number four in the UK and number six in the US.

Following standing ovations and glowing reviews at the Brisbane Festival in 2024, the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Trent Dalton’s Love Stories is set for a four-city national tour in September 2025.

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Events

Brisbane - Tuesday 30 September

7:30PM AEST LAUNCH OF GRAVITY LET ME GO

In conversation with Catherine Milne

Hosted by Brisbane Writer’s Festival with bookselling by Avid Reader

The Powerhouse Theatre

Book here: https://bwf.org.au/2025/out-of-season-events-2025/trent-dalton-gravity-let-me-go

Sydney - Tuesday 7 October

7:00PM SYDNEY GRAVITY LET ME GO EVENT

In conversation with Holly Wainwright

Hosted by Better Read Than Dead

The Enmore Theatre

Book here: https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=TRENTDA25

Auckland - Wednesday 15 October

6:45PM AN EVENING WITH TRENT DALTON

Hosted by Auckland Writer’s Festival

The Civic

Book here: https://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=TRENTDA25

Launceston - Tuesday 21 October

06:00PM EVENING EVENT WITH PETRACH’S BOOKS AT THE TRAMSHED

Tramshed Function Centre, 4 Invermay Road, Launceston Tasmania 7248

In conversation with Maggie McKellar (Maggie’s most recent release GRAFT was longlisted for the Stella and shortlisted for 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards)

Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/DDYUA