Max Easton

Set across the course of a year, against the backdrop of pandemic and war, of climate and housing crises, Paradise Estate – Max Easton’s follow-up to The Magpie Wing – documents the struggle against generational confusion and social malaise. When isolation and atomisation are all we’ve been given, what can be built from common ground?

Max Easton’s debut novel explores how, even in a city divided against itself, disparate communities – underground music scenes, rugby league clubs, communist splinter groups – share unexpected roots.