Underground McGahan, Andrew

Leo is a cave guide in North Queensland, leading tourists through limestone passages by day and drinking through his nights. When a TV crew arrives to film a documentary about Australia's deepest cave system, he's pulled into an expedition that will take him far beyond the mapped tunnels — into flooded chambers, impossible squeezes, and the kind of darkness that makes you question what's real. Andrew McGahan writes about obsession and the underground with the precision of someone who knows both intimately. This is claustrophobic, atmospheric literary fiction that uses caving as a metaphor for everything we bury. For fans of Tim Winton's intensity and anyone drawn to novels where landscape becomes character.