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Dead Dog Barking — Hard Cover Edition: Pre-Order and Launch Timeline

Everything readers, booksellers and event organisers need to know about the mid-2026 launch of Love, [...]

Inside Dead Dog Barking: Five Reasons Readers Can’t Put It Down

A spoiler-light look at what early readers are loving about Love, Thompson's debut novel — [...]

Meet Love, Thompson — Australia’s New Voice in Literary Comedy

A country-pub publican turned debut novelist, Love, Thompson is bringing a sharply Australian comic voice [...]

Audrey the Toothless Wonder and the Dog That Haunts the Novel

A love letter to my dog, who is the opposite of the dog in the [...]

Country Pub Tuesdays: Where the Characters Were Born

Every voice in Dead Dog Barking walked into the same pub on the same kind [...]

Why I Wrote a Book About a Dog That Wouldn’t Shut Up

There was a barking dog, a broken-hearted teenage girl, and a country pub. That's how [...]