The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst is a sweet, cosy fantasy story about letting people in, building community, and making a home for oneself. Kiela has lived and …
Book review: The Undetectables by Courtney Smyth
Courtney Smyth’s debut novel The Undetectables is a good idea.It offers disability representation, with a protagonist who lives with fibromyalgia. There’s also LGBTQIA+ representation in …
Book review: The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks
Sarah Brooks’ The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands is a brilliant and unique story of a train journey that changes the world. In 1899, on the …
Book review: The Briar Book of the Dead by A. G. Slatter
The Briar Book of the Dead is a novel of witches, family legacies and terrible secretsby Australian author AG Slatter. Slatter has an incredible talent …
Book review: The Changing Room by Belinda Cranston
Belinda Cranston’s debut novel The Changing Room is the story of a young Australian woman searching for herself while travelling through Egypt and the Middle East in …
Book review: They Shut Me Up by Tracey Fahey
They Shut Me Up is a novella about maligned women by Irish author Tracy Fahey. This story explores themes of the patriarchal silencing of women, …
Book review: The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
A thrilling dark YA urban fantasy about three young women and their demons. The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland continues her trademark style of female-led YA …
Book review: The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings by Angela Slatter
The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings is a darkly subversive collection of stories fromthe queen of twisted fairy tales, Angela Slatter. These stories explore themes …
Book review: Where the Nightmare Ends by Robin Wood
Robin Wood’s Where the Nightmare Ends, edited by Ramsey Campbell, is anexploration of the monstrous upending normality. A time period is not explicit, butthe book …
Book review: Everyone on This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
Benjamin Stevenson keeps on track with Everyone on This Train is a Suspect. Everyone on This Train is a Suspect is Benjamin Stevenson’s second whodunit …