Punching Out

It's 2016, and five men leave the army to start afresh in 'Civvie Street'. Despite everything they have done, they face one of the greatest challenges of their lives and in a country that is simultaneously redefining its place in the world.

The final novel in Fergus Smith's Colours Quartet, this story explores a fundamental question: what makes us who we are?

"I read Punching Out with admiration." - Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room (2001, short-listed for the Booker Prize)

"Smith's gift is to show, with delicate, ruthless, and heart-breaking precision, what soldiers face when they adapt to civilian life." - Elizabeth T. Gray Jr, author of Salient (2020)