Adult Fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages, marriages, and other adult milestones by Briohny Doyle was the winner of the 2017 …
Adult Fantasy by Briohny Doyle
Book review: The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon
A slow, thoughtful novel about the Japanese concept of achiragawa, or: the other side. The Shut Ins is the second novel from Katherine Brabon, a …
Book review: Two Steps Onward by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist
A physical and spiritual journey that explores the highs and lows of life and love. Two Steps Onward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist details …
Book review: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
A dark, twisted modern fairytale of sisters, secrets and strangeness. Krystal Sutherland’s House of Hollow is a brilliantly-executed modern dark fairytale told from the point …
Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
What neither of us, what none of us say: You took up all my space. I didn’t know how to say no and you never …
The Little Boat on Trusting Lane by Mel Hall
The Little Boat on Trusting Lane by Mel Hall is a delightful novel that explores different ways of being, loving and living, all set in …
Book review: The Safe Place by Anna Downes
An intense, smouldering domestic thriller. Anna Downes’ debut The Safe Place is an intense, un-put-down-able domestic thriller that had me turning pages well into the …
Deep Water by Sarah Epstein
Deep Water is Sarah Epstein’s second novel, a YA thriller like her debut, Small Spaces. Thirteen-year-old Henry Weaver has been missing from The Shallows in …
Book review: Repentance by Alison Gibbs
A novel of social and environmental upheaval in a small Australian town in the 1970s. Alison Gibbs’ debut novel Repentance is set in a small …
The Farm at Peppertree Crossing by Leonie Kelsall
Roni (short for Veronica) grew up in Sydney in difficult foster homes and state care. She keeps her life as simple and isolated as possible, …