Locust Summer is a 2021 book by the West Australian journalist David Allan-Petale. The book, which was Allan-Petale's debut novel, was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Western Australian Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer.
Locust Summer is set in 1986. A man named Rowan Brockman reluctantly returns home to his family farm to help with the harvest after a decline in his father's health and the death of his brother, while the family prepares to sell the property.
Locust Summer was reviewed in The Age, Westerly, The Australian, and The West Australian.