“Full of weather, and the creatures and people we do not intimately know but live in close proximity to, All That Wasted Heat bears witness to the ways we try to save ourselves, and reflects on the inevitability of death, loss and change, but also the inevitability of interconnection. There is generous space for the reader to insert their own memories and associations between these sensitively-crafted vignettes, and to feel the relief that ‘I’ is not the centre of the world. An affecting and accomplished book to read and reread.” Tamara Lazaroff
“To read these small vignettes is to gradually uncover a larger story: the chronicle of a nameless city full of ordinary, remarkable lives. Finding a kind of intimacy in anonymity, these stories, like their narrator, are big and warm and always watching.” Michelle Dicinoski
“Startlingly human, All That Wasted Heat wears its heart on the sub/urban streets. Hadwen has a keen eye for quotidian despair and that restless yearning that comes as a result of watching the world move around you. He manages to get to the heart of a certain kind of feeling—something that we carry with us every day.” Rebecca Jessen
