Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s memoir How to be Australian charts her emigration from Canada to Australia with her new husband, beginning in 2011 and ending in …
Book review: How to be Australian by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
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 …
Book review: 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 …
Book review: 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 …
Book review: 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 …
Book review: 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, …
Book review: The Mistake by Katie McMahon
The Mistake is a debut work from Katie McMahon told from the points of view of sisters Bec and Kate. Bec, the younger sister, is …
Book review: Euphoria Kids by Alison Evans
Alison Evans’s latest novel, Euphoria Kids, is a YA work, and beyond that it is not easy to define. Katya de Becerra describes it as ‘perfect …