Jock Serong is the author of six novels, spanning ideas from crime to historical fiction. His most recent novel, THE SETTLEMENT, completes The Furneaux Trilogy of novels about the frontier history of Bass Strait. Jock also writes non-fiction for outlets such as The Monthly, The Guardian and Surfing World, and is the founding editor of Great Ocean Quarterly. He lives on Victoria's Shipwreck Coast and spends part of each year in the Furneaux Islands of Bass Strait.