Green Dot

Madeleine Gray

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English

Allen & Unwin
01 January 2026

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

WINNER OF THE 2024 MATT RICHELL AWARD FOR NEW WRITER OF THE YEAR

WINNER OF THE 2025 RUSSELL PRIZE FOR HUMOUR WRITING

'I wolfed Green Dot down over two nights. An incredibly funny book about a woman having an affair that's a really bad idea. Every sentence sparkles.' - Caitlin Moran, author of How to Be a Woman

'Brilliant. Riveting. Sharp. Funny. Dark. I want to give Green Dot all the adjectives but will content myself with saying it is one of the best books you will read all year.' - Elizabeth Day, host of the How to Fail podcast

'I felt so much joy reading this utterly assured writing. Green Dot is written with such poise, such confidence, I could not look away. I was mesmerised by its sheer brilliance.' - Jessie Tu, author of A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

'If you liked Fleabag you will love Green Dot.' - Pandora Sykes

Hera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties. Since leaving school, she has been trying to kick and scream into existence a life she cares about, but with little success so far.

Until she meets Arthur.

He works with her, he is older than her, he is also married. But in her soulless office-the large cold room she feels destined to spend her life in-he is a source of much-needed sustenance. And though Hera has previously dated women, she soon falls headlong into a workplace romance that will quickly consume her life.

Laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving and whip smart, Green Dot is a story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing and the winding, torturous, often hilarious journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.

'I am obsessed with this book. I am obsessed with Hera, with her dad, her friends, her dog. I am obsessed with how funny she is, and how hopeful and dark and tender and bleak the world is through her eyes. Green Dot is a book about love, and how stupid and funny and absolutely beautiful life can be. I would read it forever if I could.'

- Laura McPhee-Browne, author of Cherry Beach

'Laugh-out-loud funny and beautifully, brutally relatable - Green Dot is a book that will stay with me for a very long time.'

- Ewa Ramsey, author of The Morbids

'Incredibly funny and a bit too real. This debut novel captures the zeitgeist.' - Brigid Delaney, author of Reasons Not to Worry and Wellmania

By: Madeleine Gray
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm,
ISBN: 9781761473371
ISBN 10: 1761473379
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 January 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written arts criticism for SRB, Overland, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, etc. In 2019 she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and in 2021 she was a finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, a finalist for the Woollahra Digital Literary Non-fiction award, and a recipient of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel grant. She has an MSt in English from the University of Oxford and is a current doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester, researching contemporary women's autobiographical literary theory. Green Dot is her first novel.