Time Together

Luke Horton

‘Time Together is a slow burn of a novel. Beautifully written and impossible to put down. I loved it.’

Sophie Cunningham, author of This Devastating Fever

‘An artful, deliciously acerbic portrait of family, friendship, and the indignities of middle age. Horton is a master of domestic unease.’

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

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Praise for The Fogging:

‘Claustrophobic and vertiginous … an unshrinking and skilfully drawn portrait of a decaying relationship. In restrained prose, Horton illuminates the darker edges of masculinity. His is a frequency finely tuned to silences, gaps of language and meaning, things left unsaid — and their cumulative weight. Like a brewing storm on an oppressive summer day, The Fogging is quiet but assured, building towards the thunderclap of its final pages.’

Jennifer Down, author of Our Magic Hour

Praise for The Fogging:

‘The Fogging is disquieting, compelling, and scrupulously observed, exploring themes of mental illness, interconnectedness, and selfhood. Horton observes his characters with a clear and compassionate eye, rendering his protagonist’s utter humanity and chronic isolation with stark tenderness and an honesty that moves.’

Laura McPhee-Browne, author of Cherry Beach

Praise for The Fogging:

‘I loved The Fogging. It’s such a finely controlled novel, so filled with creeping dread and yet so humane in its attention to psychological detail — those subtle doubts and delusions upon which relationships are built — that I could not look away. It raises the quiet inadequacies of ordinary life to the level of grand tragedy.’

Miles Allinson, author of Fever of Animals

Praise for The Fogging:

‘Unsettling and dreamlike … humorous and yet lingeringly sad. We find ourselves so deeply buried alongside Tom in his introspection, his comic yet touching attempts at self- knowledge, that when the revelation of his misinterpretation of his own relationship arrives, the shock is a kick to the gut.’

Peggy Frew, author of Hope Farm and Islands

Praise for The Fogging:

‘In this quiet, acute, and often painful book, the peculiarities of 21st-century love and adulthood are evoked stealthily, but all the more forcefully, thanks to Horton’s forensic and poetic approach to the subject.’

Shaun Prescott, author of The Town

‘Horton writes authentically of this intimate interplay of warring insecurities, nostalgias, and unrealised aspirations … Cutting through this is Horton’s restrained, crisp writing, so unadorned with superfluity that his simple descriptions of nature and light resonate … a compelling rendering of personal and interpersonal tensions and the subterranean currents that shape them. Without sentimentality, Horton tenderly evokes the at times quiet, opaque nature of grief.’

Jack Callil, The Guardian

Once they were just them. Now they’re forty-something and there’s kids. Whose time is this?

Phil is trying to feel closer to his recently passed mother by spending time alone at his parent’s house on the coast. But he is lonely, and stupidly he’s invited a bunch of old friends to visit. It’s bound to be a mistake. All those children! But it’s too late now, and tomorrow Bella and Tim will arrive with their two kids, one on the brink of puberty, and the next day Jo and Lucas will come too, with their little one. Then there’s Annie, who will be by herself.

The story of a beach holiday told by four different people, Time Together is a novel about different kinds of love, different kinds of loneliness, and the way spending time together can bring out the best and worst in each other.

‘Time Together is a slow burn of a novel. Beautifully written and impossible to put down. I loved it.’

Sophie Cunningham, author of This Devastating Fever

‘An artful, deliciously acerbic portrait of family, friendship, and the indignities of middle age. Horton is a master of domestic unease.’

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

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Miles Allinson, author of Fever of Animals

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Peggy Frew, author of Hope Farm and Islands

Praise for The Fogging:

Shaun Prescott, author of The Town

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Size: 234mm × 153mm

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ISBN (13):9781761380921

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Pub date:4 Mar 2025

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Luke Horton

Luke Horton is a writer and musician from Naarm/Melbourne. He is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Fogging (2020) and Time Together (2025), and his work has appeared in various publications, including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, and Meanjin. The former editor of The Lifted Brow Review of Books, he currently teaches creative writing at RMIT and the Faber Writing Academy, and is a member of acclaimed indie-rock band Love of Diagrams.

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