A Catalogue of Love by Erin Hortle - ISBN: 9781761631801
Paperback
Surfing, grief, and self-discovery: a young woman finds love in Tasmania.

A Catalogue of Love

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  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    26 August 2025

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Summary

A young woman surfer’s coming of age in Tasmania, where the natural world helps her find herself and navigate grief and trauma. Echoes of Love and Virtue, Breath and H is for Hawk.

‘Did I still love him? No, probably not. Just the memory of him. Except it wasn’t even that. It was probably that I was in love with the memory of the me who’d loved him before.’

Neika learned to surf in the sometimes crystal-clear, sometimes opaque green barrels of Cloudy…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761631801
ISBN-10:1761631802
Author:Erin Hortle
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Australia
Imprint:Summit Books Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:26 August 2025
Weight:430g
Dimensions:32mm x 235mm x 157mm
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Critics Review

’[A Catalogue of Love] is an enthralling, courageous and compelling ride into adulthood … Hortle’s description of the exhilaration of surfing is crafted with such precision, it’s hard to believe Neika is the work of Hortle’s exceptionally vivid imagination. Her nature writing is mesmerisingly affecting.’ * Newtown Review of Books *

About The Author

Erin Hortle

Erin Hortle is a Tasmanian-based author whose fiction and essays explore new ways of imagining the human’s relationship with the more than human world, with a distinctly feminist bent. Topics she writes about include surfing and surf culture, pelagic birds, octopuses and ambergris.

The Octopus and I, her debut novel was published in 2020 and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize and Tasmanian Book Prize. Her second novel, A Catalogue of Love, was published in August 2025.

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