New novel · 15 October 2026
The Art of
Surrender
Ayman Saliba arrives in Morocco looking for permission. Lucas Pfifer arrives already fluent in concealment.
- Morocco
- Gibraltar
- Switzerland
- Berlin
- Sydney
Generations Series: Dawn of the Eighth Sense Trilogy
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1835
Born from Mauritanian Sands
Book One of the Dawn of the Eighth Sense trilogy.
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1855
Gypsy in the Shah's Harem
Book Two of the Dawn of the Eighth Sense trilogy.
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1880
The Second Heir
Book Three of the Dawn of the Eighth Sense trilogy.
About
Blair Purvis is a novelist living in Melbourne. His work is concerned with desire, geography, and the slow, difficult business of being known — with the distance between the private and public versions of a man, and what it costs to close it.
Writing
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Mind the Gap
The Return of a Writer.
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Drowning in a Deluge of Words
A typing class in the early seventies, a writers’ conference forty years later, and the reason to keep going.
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A Licence to Write
On writing outside your own experience, and how to do it with some care.