Soft Serve, 9780702269134
Paperback
Small-town lives, big grief, and finding flavor in the mundane.
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Soft Serve

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  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    2 February 2026

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Summary

A gem of a debut novel by award-winning playwright George Kemp, about small-town lives and the search for genuine sustenance in a fast-food world.

Stuck in a regional McDonald’s, as bushfires close in, three twenty-somethings and their dead friend’s mum all face a reckoning. Fern longs for Ethan, Ethan longs for Jacob, and Jacob struggles to long for anything. Meanwhile, Pat just wants her grief to ease up.

Soft Serve proves that small-town lives are huge, and that an…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780702269134
ISBN-10:0702269131
Author:George Kemp
Publisher:University of Queensland Press
Imprint:University of Queensland Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:2 February 2026
Weight:183g
Dimensions:91mm x 127mm x 16mm
About The Author

George Kemp

George Kemp is a writer for stage, page, and screen, based on Gadigal land. He was selected to be part of the Faber Academy in 2023-24, during which he completed the first draft of Soft Serve.

His award-winning play Shack has been performed frequently around the country and internationally, and is included on the new NSW Drama Curriculum.

George has had a successful career as an actor across Australia and England, in productions such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Cyrano de Bergerac (Sydney Theatre Company) and national and international tours of The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong.

He is also a passionate educator and mentor of actors and writers and is currently Producer, New Writing & Artist Development at Australian Theatre for Young People.

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