Woo Woo
Overview
A thrillingly weird novel about art, obsession, and the feral nature of female creativity.
Sabine is a conceptual artist whose latest show, Fuck You, Help Me, is about to launch, when her world begins to unravel. Stalked by a mysterious figure whose approaches grow increasingly threatening, she spirals deeper into her neuroses as exhibition day approaches and her fear transforms into something primal and untamed. Accompanied by her strange alter egos — from hyper-realistic baby puppets to the ghost of performance artist Caroline Schneemann — Sabine hurtles toward a surreal climax that forces a reckoning with what it means to create, to be seen, and to survive as a woman artist in a voyeuristic world.
Ella Baxter delivers an incandescent howl of a book that dissects creativity and obsession with visceral humour and unflinching intensity. Part psychological thriller, part artistic manifesto, Woo Woo is a spooky, surreal feast that pulses with rage and vibrates with delight — a literary firestorm unlike anything else.
Details
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- Pub date
- Rights held
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- Paperback
- 198mm x 129mm
- 272 pages
- 9781917189439
- GBP£9.99
- 15 January 2026
- UK & Commonwealth (ex. ANZ, Can) + Europe
- a4 Literary
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Awards
- Shortlisted for the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Praise
‘A hyper-focused character study of a working artist in the age of platform capitalism. It at once lampoons and indulges the quirks of the self-marketing creative … As both a satire of the contemporary art world and a sincere portrait of the “chronically online” artist, Woo Woo effectively captures the emergent energies of a generation accustomed to transgression and feminism, but still struggling to metabolise these terms when a living woman embodies them.’
‘Ella Baxter cements herself as a novelist with a gift for exposing vulnerability under the surface of the absurd … [A] thoroughly bewildering exploration of exposure and autonomy, of seeing and being seen, through art and in life.’
About the Author
Ella Baxter is a writer and artist living on unceded land of the Wurundjeri people. In her spare time she runs a small business making bespoke death shrouds. Her debut novel, New Animal, was published in 2021. Woo Woo is her second novel.