Review: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.

Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.

Detransition, Baby is out to shake your notions of gender and family to their core.

A dense and watery novel about the madness of searching for meaning in our mad times.

A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.

A novel about gardening that is also what it takes to rebuild.

Born Into This is an effective demand to be heard.

A blistering indictment of the treatment of victims of sex crimes by the legal system.

A short, seething and immaculate novel about what it’s like living in Israeli occupied Palestine.

An intriguing fantasy drawing on forest myths that is burdened by an unfortunate attitude to women.