We've lost our head for our John Clarke Prize for Humour-shortlisted book!
Gabiann Marin's mythic mystery,
The Medusa Situation has been shortlisted
in The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for 2025!
Ready for a caper mystery set in Australia and starring Medusa and the Greek goddesses Hera, Athena and Artemis? Then get ready for Gabiann Marin's The Medusa Situation, just shortlisted for the John Clarke Prize for Humour Award.
In modern day Australia the Greek goddess Hera and her Olympian family have accepted their forced divine retirement and live out their immortality in the suburbs.
Their once exciting, all-powerful, and totally worshipped lives have been replaced by endless days of quiet resentment and mystical reality TV programs.
That is until Stheno and Eurydale, sisters of the more infamous gorgon of legend, turn up on Hera’s doorstep asking for help because Medusa’s head has been stolen. Again.
The novel is Janet Evanovich meets Natalie Haynes, in an entertaining urban fantasy which examines issues of justice, male entitlement, and the ways in which powerful women have been treated throughout the history of storytelling.
It’s mystery, mayhem, mythology, comedy, and social commentary with a feminist twist in Gabiann Marin's The Medusa Situation.
The Greek gods are alive and well – and living in Sydney: mic drop.
