Goldfish: An Australian Crime Novella

By Henry Wells

'Goldfish is tough as hell'
Ben Hobson

It's 1989.
At a rundown service station outside Brisbane Frank Corridini has a dead man at his feet and a drugged three-year-old girl in the back of a '74 Corolla.
All he wants is redemption. What he's got is the past.
Henry Wells's surreal and violent novella is a drunk's prayer in an abattoir. It burns through a hundred pages and ends on a lonely bridge in a remote corner of Southeast Queensland.

This is a fever dream of a book... Southern Gothic just got fair dinkum in the Sunshine State.

'Henry Wells faces human beings, in all their violent, messed up glory, without flinching. It's Australian crime writing at its very best.' Ben Hobson, author of Snake Island and The Death of John Lacey

' Henry Wells] writes like an experienced barroom knife fighter... This is crime fiction stripped of romance, just people at the edge, hoping one last act might mean something. ' Michael W. Corcoran, author of Eddie the KIng: Stories of LA's Skid Row

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1764103815
• ISBN13: 9781764103817
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Rough Places Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"