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Steven Amsterdam writes of himself that he ‘once got yelled at by Sean Penn’ and (on a separate occasion) ‘got incredibly sick and thought he might die in a small village on Sulawesi’. He is also a native New Yorker, who now works as a psychiatric nurse in Melbourne. His first ‘gleefully apocalyptic novel’ (Financial Times), Things We Didn’t See Coming, follows a man trying to survive and retain his humanity in a world suffering from a streak of cataclysmic events; 'Rarely has the darkness of life been looked at with such buoyant irony, imaginative grace and disarming ardour.' Eileen Battersby of the Irish Times imparts. Read an extract from the book here.

Visit Steven Amsterdam's website and read a review of The Things We Didn't See Coming in the Guardian.