Title: August Falling: The Author’s Cut
Publisher: ECG Press
Publication Date: 14 October 2026
Category: Suburban Noir
Paperback: (234x153mm, 400 pages)
ISBN
Print: 978-1-7647517-3-5
Ebook: 978-1-7647517-4-2
Who do you become when the past won’t let you go?
Coming out of a bad relationship, thirty-year-old August is trying to piece his life back together. It’s far from perfect – he has a one-bedroom apartment, he works in a call center, and he can’t finish the book he’s working on – but it’s something to hold onto.
When he meets Julie Hall, he finds she’s everything he isn’t – confident, dynamic, and purposeful, and that’s despite her troubled childhood. She’s a whirlwind who disrupts the apathy of August’s life, and he begins to feel he can finally be himself.
But Julie has her own secret – one that threatens to unravel August’s world, and plummet him right back into the miseries of his past.
Part romcom, part coming-of-age, August Falling is a story about acceptance, taking ownership of your life, and finding a way to move forward, even when moving forward seems impossible.
‘Zig creates a world in which light-heartedness and meaningfulness thrive in harmony. It’s a place where the deeper issues of life can be taken with a spoonful of sugar, leaving the sojourner with the bittersweet taste of life and love.’
– Elizabeth Calder
GlamAdelaide
‘Mr Zig writes anxiety well – excruciatingly well and yet somehow, August Falling is not the depressive cringe-fest I feared it might be. And the author was right in that intro. August Falling is not a story about love, nor is it one of redemption or arrival either. It’s a story of incremental self-acceptance – so incremental it’s barely noticeable until one day, things just seem clearer and more hopeful somehow.’
– Jennifer McDonald
For Pity’s Sake
‘I really enjoyed reading a book that discussed relationships (with others and with ourselves) from a male point of view; and though it’s only one male author’s point of view refracted through multiple male characters of his own creation, it was nice to see that we all have the same hang ups, self doubts, wants and needs.’
– Suki Harrison
Brisbanista
‘August Falling is an entertaining, page-turner – a great weekend read.’
– Joanne P.
Booklover Book Reviews
‘‘Raw, poignant and unflinching …’
– Laurie Steed
