AustLit

'In a future world of extreme climate change, Perth, Western Australia's capital city, has been abandoned. Most people were evacuated to the East by the late '30s and organised infrastructure and services have gone.

A few thousand obstinate and independent souls cling to the city and to the southern towns. Living mostly by night to endure the fierce temperatures, they are creating a new culture in defiance of official expectations. A teenage girl stolen from her family as a child; a troupe of street actors who affect their new culture with memories of the old; a boy born into the wrong body; and a teacher who is pushed into the role of guide tell the story of The Nightside.' -- From the publisher's website.

Based on the story of the Bennet family from the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Set in China in the near future the story sees the country descend into chaos following some form of genetically engineered plague.

'A procurer of bodies has her business affected when someone – or something – starts killing people, and a vampire, in her neighbourhood. One for pet lovers, perhaps' (Jason Nahrung, 'Vampires in the Sunburnt Country,' 2007, p.52).