Poems that are all about the hidden things.
Review: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
A contained and seething study of madness and familial obligation.
Review: Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr
A heady mix of mundane and heavenly, the sins of the flesh and the yearning of the spirit.
Review: Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl
A gripping and exhausting, funny and despairing, and completely compelling account of living with grief.
Review: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
A monumental, meandering, magnificent tale of truth, love, beauty.
Review: The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams
A novel about who defines the words that define us.
Five gay things I learned from The Boy In The Dress
A story of a murder in the 1940s becomes a much bigger, and queerer, tale of Australia’s history.
Review: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday
A safari through time with an urgent message about the future.
Review: The Promise by Damon Galgut
A story of an Afrikaner family whose fortunes mirror that of post-apartheid South Africa.
Review: The Death Of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
An insight into the silence and stigma of living queer in Nigeria.
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