When Gecko knocks on Tortoise's front door, Tortoise isn't sure what’s happening. Before he knows it, he's been whisked off on a very strange adventure...
The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko is a four-part, cross-genre novel that sets off as a comic fable and then begins to spiral. A story of wit, wonder, loss, and transformation, it includes talking animals, piracy, empire, and buried text.
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Pegasus illustration © 2024 Chris Lynch. Illustrated by Yana Smolinska.
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Chris Lynch is a White Papuan-Australian of Gaelic ancestry who lives alongside the Merri Creek, in Wurundjeri Country. An English & science teacher, his novel, 'The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko', is being serialised on Substack.