Patrick Lenton’s short story collection, Sexy Tales of Paleontology, is a fun, weird trip through an imaginative mind fed by pop culture, queerness, and joy …
Sexy Tales of Paleontology by Patrick Lenton
Australian author
The First Time I Thought I Was Dying by Sarah Walker
Trigger warning: mention of self-harm, mental illness, eating disorders, suicide, and pornography. Sarah Walker’s The First Time I Thought I Was Dying is a collection …
The Housemate by Sarah Bailey
The Housemate by Sarah Bailey is a story of murder, investigative journalism, and a decades-old mystery. Oli Groves is a junior crime journalist covering the …
Book beview: Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone
A haunting YA Gothic fantasy about a girl and a monster. Lakesedge is a haunting YA Gothic Fantasy debut from Lyndall Clipstone. It is the …
Adult Fantasy by Briohny Doyle
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 …
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 …
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, …