Clan Destine Press

21/10/2025

It's almost like Raymond Chandler wrote the Famous Five!

Trench coat-wearing teenage detective Thornton Thacker has made a habit of chasing things that bite back.

A missing Egyptian mummy. Cryptic hieroglyphs.
A curse older than the concept of bad decisions.

With his whip-smart sister and two best friends in tow, Thacker follows a deadly trail through shadowy streets from creepy museums galleries to moonlit rooftops.

What they find isn’t just ancient – it’s angry.

Some mysteries in this mean city, you don’t solve...
You simply survive.

Pre-order - 20% off - The Bride Must Be Stopped!

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03/10/2025

Welcome to the Mean City - don't mind the body count.

CDP is thrilled to announce the imminent release of

The Bride Must be Stopped!

first in a new YA noir mystery series by our Kiwi author Stephen Ross.

Thornton Thacker had never met a girl like Caroline Greer. It was love at first sight, and trouble thereafter.

Young Thacker is no stranger to trouble. He’s a trench coat-wearing teenage detective living in a city of shadows and sirens – a concrete jungle with more secrets than street lamps, and he’s made a habit of chasing the ones that bite back.

The Bride Must Be Stopped! - due for release in mid-October is ready now for pre-order, with a 20% discount.

https://www.clandestinepress.net

26/08/2025

Our very Gabiann Marin and her fabulous novel The Medusa Situation are up for a 2025 Ditmar Award.
Voting for the Australian SF Awards are now open.
https://shorturl.at/ulyl3

15/04/2025

Congrats to all the fabulous authors shortlisted for the 2024 Aurealis Awards...

especially our very own Narrelle Harris in the Best Fantasy Novel category for The She-Wolf of Baker Street.

WE knew we were onto a sure thing with the adventures of Mrs Hudson, the kickarse menopausal werewolf of 221B Bake Street!

21/03/2025

There's nothing better than giving your author the first copy of his latest book.
Here be Stephen Johnson with Dead on Target, the fourth book in the Melbourne Spotlight Mystery series.
The book is now ready to order

https://www.clandestinepress.net/products/dead-on-target

OR

if you're coming to Clunes Booktown this weekend you can snaffle an autographed copy from Stephen while he's in Australia from New Zealand.

24/02/2025

Our very own Gabiann Marin - shortlisted for the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing at this year's Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - will be in very funny company at Clunes Booktown.
Along with 2 other shortlisters, Sam Elkin and Robert Skinner, Gabiann will be put under the humour scope by writer Loren Clarke - daughter of beloved satirist John Clarke.
https://tickets.clunesbooktown.com.au/Events/You-Gotta-Laugh-Celebrating-Humour-Writing

09/02/2025

Bo Starsky and Cannoli review The Medusa Situation.

28/01/2025

The Medusa Situation by Gabiann Marin has been shortlisted for the John Clarke Prize for Humour Writing in the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for 2025.

The Medusa Situation joins the Greek goddess Hera and her Olympian family as they accept their forced divine retirement and live out their immortality in the Aussie suburbs. Their once exciting, all-powerful, and totally worshipped lives have been replaced by endless days of quiet resentment and mys...

27/01/2025

We are now on Bluesky toobsky.social

27/01/2025

Our first video book review for Pride & Justice by Timothy Bowden.

29/11/2024

The Hollow Witch is a fabulous q***r romantasy by the fabulous Mary Borsellino.

We're thrilled to announce the imminent release of The Hollow Witch by Mary Borsellino.
A Sapphic romantasy set in a world of dark magic filled with love, friendship, action, betrayal, disability and the deadly cadaveri.

Pre-orders are now open with a 20% discount on the paperback and eBook.

"Beautiful and macabre, Borsellino weaves a darkly spellbinding tale of Sapphic love in a world where the dead aren’t always gone."
CS Pacat, bestselling author of The Captive Prince series
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