‘You never knew fiction could do this.’

—Jane Rawson, author of From the Wreck

‘A novel of rare visionary brilliance, Rise & Shine blew me away.’

— Bram Presser, author of The Book of Dirt

‘Fiercely imaginative and astonishingly written.’

— Robbie Arnott, author of Flames and The Rain Heron

‘[Rise & Shine] could easily be an episode of Charlie Brooker’s Netflix series Black Mirror … Rise & Shine does not shy away from the complex moral terrain of political agency. Carefully, subtly, Allington lets the tension between multiple propositions build: that law and order form a part of collective survival; that service of the people can easily slip into control of the people; that people want a leader; that effective leadership requires multiple perspectives; that people can change; that some people don’t. Allington sustains the tension until the final pages, where he offers a thought-provoking ending worthy of his imaginative take on dystopia.’

— Naama Grey-Smith, Australian Book Review

‘There is a definite Kafkaesque air to Allington’s writing, as well as echoes of 1984 and Brave New World … The dialogue is one of the great strengths of Rise & Shine: buoyantly paced, drolly comic and easily absorbing … Rise & Shine is apt reading for our current atmosphere of environmental, societal and economic precarity. It is an undeniably imaginative and engrossing fable.’

Jack Callil, The Age

‘Rise & Shine is a piece of timely, suitably intriguing speculative fiction.’

Ben Adams, Herald Sun

‘Patrick Allington’s Rise & Shine, drops us headfirst into a future in the wake of an ecological catastrophe that claimed the lives of more than eight billion people … The novel strikes a balance between the absurd and the horrific that feels reminiscent of George Saunders’ science-fiction work.’

Jack Rowland, The Saturday Paper