Review: Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar

An intimate, clear-sighted epic of Australian colonialism.

Review: Signs And Wonders by Delia Falconer

Essays that evoke the feeling of living through environmental crisis.

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: My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden

Sally Hayden exposes the cruelty and corruption of the EU’s refugee policies.

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.

Review: An Immense World by Ed Yong

A majestic and intimate travelogue of animals’ sensory worlds.

Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo

A bracing dose of retro-strangeness.

Review: Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson

I screamed, I cackled, I winced my way through these delicious short stories.