Jack Dempsey

Novels, Memoir & Speculative Fiction

Writing at the intersection of crime, memory, and the human condition

Crime & Sydney Noir

Shadows Beneath the Surface

A psychological noir set against the forgotten tunnels and hidden histories of Sydney

Built on real Sydney history and its forgotten places, this thriller explores what happens when the silent, controversial bronze statues of the Anzac Memorial finally speak.

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Memoirs, Satire & Humor

Half Alive: A Brutally Honest and Hilarious London Underground Busking Memoir

Before the books, there was the tunnel. A raw, funny, and chaotic look at life underground as a London busker.

Part performance art, part survival guide, and entirely unpredictable. From the strange characters of the Northern Line to the rhythm of a city heard from the pavement up, this is a story of life lived on the edge of the crowd.

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The Yoga Spoof

A playful, satirical jab at the world of modern yoga, spiritual commercialism, and the search for enlightenment

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Literary & Speculative Fiction (Works in Progress)

Jiva: The Necrophilia of Time

A raw, hallucinatory descent into 1980s London—squats, prisons, ghosts, and the fragile line between freedom and self-destruction. A literary exploration of a life on the edge.


Under the Last Dust

A consciousness escapes the future and is reborn through history—searching for order, identity, and the final place where the noise ends. Featuring a journey from Mozart’s Vienna to the Russian Revolution.

[COMING SOON ]


The Glebe Men’s Shed

A local Sydney story exploring community, music, and the power of connection in the heart of Glebe.

[COMING SOON]



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