‘Armanno writes with such intensity. His words detonate off the page.’
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
NEW RELEASES
‘Each novella acts as a neat companion piece to the other, both depicting unhealthy relationships and the difficulty of escaping past sins. Both, moreover, are written with a rare grace and delicacy.’
Financial Times
NOVELS
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
‘Venero Armanno has written a novel of rare distinction - intensely fluent, deeply accessible and irresistably readable. Highly recommend.’
CANBERRA TIMES
‘A lovely rocking rolling swoop of a novel.’
GOOD READING
‘Bold, original and moving.’
THE AGE
ABOUT VENERO
Venero Armanno is an Australian-born author of Sicilian heritage. His literary career commenced during a visit to his family’s small village at the age of ten, when he looked up at the fire fountains and flowing lava of the nearby active volcano Mt Etna and promised himself he would one day be a writer. True to that promise, to date he has published eleven acclaimed novels, two short story collections, and with many new books to be published in 2025 and 2026.
For three decades Venero’s works have populated bookshelves and the captured hearts of readers worldwide.
His epic work of fiction The Volcano won the 2002 Queensland Premiers Literary Award for Best Novel of the Year and was also shortlisted for the Courier Mail Best Book of the Year. Firehead was shortlisted in the 1999 Queensland Premiers Literary Award for Best Novel of the Year.
Venero is the recipient of a Commonwealth Medal for Services to Australian Literature and is a professor of creative writing at The University of Queensland.
