Fiction
The Island of Last Things review: Emma Sloley's book is about the last zoo in the world
The Island of Last Things asks what you would be prepared to risk for a better world.
A Catalogue of Love review: Erin Hortle's novel is a coming-of-age story set in Tasmania
A Catalogue of Love invites readers to think about the social and biological burdens on women.
U Want it Darker review: Murray Middleton's quietly heroic stories
Murray Middleton’s ‘artists in despair’ are not simply failures in U Want it Darker.
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with Sallyanne Scotton Moonga’s stage adaptation of Jane Austen's classic gothic parody, Northanger Abbey
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Magic Time Dinosaurs: Spring School Holiday Program 2025
Step through a portal and discover what happens when dinosaurs land at your school! Dream, design, and create stories, poems,…
100 Story Building
Library of Unwritten Futures: Spring Holiday Program 2025
Over two magical days, storytellers will explore, invent, and create their own worlds through writing, drawing, and creative storytelling.
The Wolf Who Cried Boy review: Mark Mupotsa-Russell’s heart-wrenching second novel
A six-year-old child’s reality blurs with fantasy in The Wolf Who Cried Boy.
The Farm review: Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s page-turning gothic thriller
Jessica Mansour-Nahra's The Farm poses troubling questions about the cycle of domestic violence, motherhood, and female bodily autonomy.
Katabasis review: R F Kuang latest book is clever and absurd
It is rare to encounter a story that can be described as both ‘light imaginative escapism’ and ‘dense philosophical exploration’,…
Best new fiction books September 2025
Your guide to the best new fiction published in September 2025.