Review: Root And Branch by Eda Gunaydin

A compelling search for origins.

Review: Alec by William di Canzio

A sexy flip of E. M. Forster’s illicit queer romance.

Review: Boulder by Eva Baltasar (translated by Julia Sanchez)

A juicy domestic horror.

Review: big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills

A gorgeous and liberatory collection of illustrated essays and memoir.

Review: This All Come Back Now (edited by Mykaela Saunders)

A spectacular anthology of First Nations spec fic.

Review: Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar

An intimate, clear-sighted epic of Australian colonialism.

Review: Shirley by Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott renders pre-pandemic life scintillatingly strange.

Review: Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

Taught and supple as leather, menacing and poignant.

Review: The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

A sweeping, grandiose tale of love and war.

Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (translated by Mara Feye Lethem)

A short, elemental novel pulsing with the rhythms of time.