Book Club - Brendan Colley’s The Season for Flying Saucers

About this episode

Brendan Colley discusses his new novel 'The Season for Flying Saucers' and its exploration of family and the paranormal in Hobart.

Brendan Colley’s first novel was the much feted The Signal Line and introduced us to his wild and wonderful world within a world of Hobart. Brendan’s new novel The Season for Flying Saucers promises to deliver just as much of a ride. When the lights appear on the first night of summer Hobart is abuzz. Locals and paranormal pundits alike agree, it’s shaping up to be a good season. Noah is skeptical. His life is spiraling more than a little; estranged from his family, his wife has left and he’s just been fired from his job. Noah’s sure if he can make payments on the family home he’s bought back and not sure if there’s much of a family to fill it with. Truthfully there’s really nothing to leave behind if they do come to get him. Weird has followed Noah ever since the night twelve years ago when his father disappeared in the lights. Since then he’s been infamous, inseparable from the lights and this Season for Flying Saucers is shaping up to be a doozy. Of course with the lights comes the scrutiny. Now Noah is thrown into a too close for comfort version of his childhood as both his mother and sister move in and try to sort out the mystery and their fraught family dynamic. Brendan…

People in this episode

Guest: Brendan Colley

Topics covered

• fiction
• family dynamics
• paranormal
• Hobart
• novel exploration

Keywords

• Brendan Colley
• The Season for Flying Saucers
• Hobart
• family
• paranormal
• fiction
• novel

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Season for Flying Saucers, The Signal Line

Places: Hobart

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