Don't worry about the housing bubble, she would say. Don't worry about the fact that you will never be able to afford a home. Worry about the day after. That's when they will all come, with their black shirts and bayonets, and then you will see the drowned bodies and slit necks. And I would stand there and say, But Mum, I'm ten years old.

A dark satire and second generation immigrant story set in outer suburban Sydney, during that city's insane housing boom. The Pillars follows the wild life of protagonist Panos, a struggling writer awash in a toxic world of aspiration, consumerism, methamphetamine and other moral gray areas. The writing is at times uncompromising and brutal – a withering portrayal of modern Australia.