SARAH HART - Blackreef - Cairns
About this audiobook
Paradise doesn’t like to be questioned.
When investigative journalist Sarah Hart arrives in Cairns to cover an industrial accident on the reef, she finds silence where answers should be… and systems working hard to keep it that way. Permits vanish. Fires follow. People disappear quietly.
As truth begins to surface, so does the cost of exposure.
Blackreef is a gripping thriller about environmental crime, controlled narratives, and what happens when the truth refuses to stay submerged.
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About the author
John Berry is an Australian author whose work explores silence, inheritance, and the enduring weight of memory. His debut novel, Ashborn, began as a quiet reflection… a single image that grew into a meditation on grief, restraint, and the way stories survive through objects, places, and generations. Written with lyrical precision and emotional stillness, the novel moves between London and Durban, tracing the fragile boundaries between love and duty, loss and remembrance.
John’s writing is shaped by an interest in the spaces between what is said and what is withheld… how gesture, pause, and silence reveal more than dialogue ever could. He writes with the conviction that stories are not invented but uncovered, drawn slowly from the lives and legacies that linger in us. His prose is intimate and deliberate, built on the rhythms of thought and the textures of memory.
Away from the page, John works quietly, surrounded by notebooks, heirlooms, and the soft clutter of ordinary life… the very things that inspire his fiction. He continues to explore themes of emotional inheritance, belonging, and the unseen ties that bind us to one another.
