Fiction
Book review: The Coast, Eleanor Limprecht
An historical drama, meticulously researched and written in lyrical prose.
Book review: New Australian Fiction 2022, edited by Suzy Garcia
A diverse yet cohesive short story collection.
Book review: This Devastating Fever, Sophie Cunningham
An ambitious book that interweaves the lives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf with contemporaneous climate change disasters.
Book review: The Brink, Holden Sheppard
Sheppard's second book is an exploration of masculinity, sexuality, and mental health.
Book review: Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls by Anne Casey-Hardy
An assured debut collection of short stories for and about women.
Book review: Nimblefoot, Robert Drewe
Fact and fiction blend in this intriguing reimagining of a young athlete's life after his early successes in pedestrianism and…
Book review: After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz
A series of vignettes, featuring the reimagined lives of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early…
Book review: Red, Felicity McLean
A reimagining of the Ned Kelly myth through a contemporary female protagonist.
Book review: Denizen, James McKenzie Watson
An award-winning, cleverly constructed debut.
Book review: Release, Lucy Christopher
A companion piece to her earlier novel, this book explores notions of trauma, control and coercion.