A story of growing up black and queer in the UK.
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.
Review: Detransition, Baby
Detransition, Baby is out to shake your notions of gender and family to their core.
Review: The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again by M. John Harrison
A dense and watery novel about the madness of searching for meaning in our mad times.
Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell
A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.
Review: An Episode Of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
A novel about gardening that is also what it takes to rebuild.
Review: Born Into This by Adam Thompson
Born Into This is an effective demand to be heard.
Review: Witness by Louise Milligan
A blistering indictment of the treatment of victims of sex crimes by the legal system.
Review: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)
A short, seething and immaculate novel about what it’s like living in Israeli occupied Palestine.
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