Fiction
Book review: The Mires, Tina Makereti
Set in the near future, the novel tracks a small community through explorations of place, ideology and ecology.
Book review: If You Go, Alice Robinson
The relationships between mothers and children are explored in a futuristic setting.
Book review: R.E.Generation, Michael Prewer
A dystopian novel that sees climate change erase mammalian life forms. What now?
Book review: The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks
A sweeping novel of strange lands, mysterious characters, and a train journey that will change the world.
Book review: The Honeyeaters, Jessie Tu
Jessie Tu's second novel canvasses the relationship between mother and daughter, literary translation and betrayal and love.
Book review, Fool Me Twice, Benjamin Stevenson
Two baffling mysteries in one book, one featuring a kidnapping, the other a reality TV show.
Book review: The Work, Bri Lee
Old and new art mix with old and new values in this debut novel from Bri Lee.
Book review: Depth of Field, Kirsty Iltners
A well told story that tackles the fallout from the fallibility of memory.
Book review: Hurdy Gurdy, Jenny Ackland
A dystopian Australia sees women's bodies policed and subjugated.
Book review: Nameless, Amanda Creely
War and its voiceless victims are the harrowing topics of this novel.