Capture

Name: Capture
Brand: The Text Publishing Company
Price: 32.75 AUD
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By: Amanda Lohrey

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Paperback | 28 April 2026

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An unexpected new novel about truth, doubt and alien abduction, by the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of The Labyrinth.

James Mather is a psychiatrist in his sixties. He is invited to take on a new group of patients. All he knows about them is that each one claims to have been abducted by aliens.

His wife, Deborah, is sceptical, but he gets going anyway. His patients tell mesmerising stories. There's Anthony, for instance, who was camping one night by the Aral Sea; or Mary, the owner of a beauty salon, confronted by a ball of light moving towards her in her bedroom.

James's research assistant Lucy Cheng sits in on each session. She's an attractive young divorcee, who has made a study of anxiety, and who takes notes about each conversation.

Capture is a strange philosophical fable about what we can believe in a post-truth world. It will beguile and baffle its readers. Amanda Lohrey is an extraordinary writer. Her novel might be full of crazy stuff, but who could deny its sanity?

'A deft and poetic writer.' Guardian

'Lohrey might be described as a writer's writer. Her writing is the literature of ideas.' Australian

'Lohrey's body of fiction always has philosophical foundations for its warmly human stories.' SMH/Age

' Lohrey's storytelling is masterful- honed to pleasing plainness and assured in its measured tempo, her novels would take multiple readings to unpick her craft, which is deft to the point of invisibility at times.' Mercury

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