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The goal is simple in cases like this: nobody can ever know. "You drill down to what matters the most to a person and you destroy it." DUMP NO WASTE  ·  FLOWS TO SEA

DESERT ROAD
OPEN

A Novel by Jane Copland

34 Chapters. 34 Interactive Experiences. Explore the world below

Explore the World

First-person simulations. 3D environments. A playable gossip forum. Each chapter is its own experience.

1Fair Catch 2Recommended Dose 3If There Are None, Travel Alone 4Repatriation 5The Right Guy 6Dissolution 7Betrayal Begins in the Boardroom 8Zero Sum Football 9Exfiltration 10Least Favourite Son 11The People Versus Hayden Berish 12Home Again 13Citizenship and Barbarians 14The Average of Your Closest FriendsRetro Game 15Watch Me BONUSSnitch CityInteractive Forum 16To All Who Play and All Who Will 17Somebody Else's Son 18Birthright 19Les Lumières du Vendredi Soir 20No More Than Two 21Twenty-One 22A Team Sport 23The Front Page of the Internet 24Benjamin and the Polymath 25Pant Suit Gutter Press 26Midnight Crossing 27Desert Road Open3D Environment 28Found Family 29Walk Me HomeFirst-Person Simulation 30To Penalties 31Patrons and Saints 32Blood Sub 33Against the Tasman Tide 34Time On
Jane Copland

Jane Copland

I am a New Zealand/British author based in Oxford, England. In my teens and early twenties I held the New Zealand women's 200m breaststroke record and swam for Washington State University in the NCAA.

I am represented by Sara Langham of David Higham Associates.

My short fiction has been recognised by the Brick Lane Bookshop Prize, Witness Magazine, Hayden's Ferry Review and other publications. These chapter experiences are companion pieces to the novel, and a different way into Andrew McBride's world.

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"It feels absolutely fresh and timely! Absolutely gripping from the start and it really brought a world — or actually several worlds — I did not know much about to life."

Ellery Lloyd, bestselling author of The Club

The Novel

Andrew McBride fled Auckland with one cap for New Zealand and a career in ruins. Thirteen years later, a past he thought he'd escaped is ready to finish what it started.

Set between Auckland and London across two timelines, Desert Road Open is a novel about the distance between who you were and who you became.