Review: A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

A strange, meditative and watery novel.

Review: Throat by Ellen van Neerven

Ellen van Neerven conjures magic from trauma in this fluid collection full of warmth and light.

A brutal tale of murder, sex and witchcraft set in the steamy coastal plains of Mexico.

The tradition is violation: of the land, of women, and especially black men’s bodies.

A story of gay frenemy-ship set in share-house inner Melbourne, uncovering uncomfortable truths about queer life and love.

While the story of The Odyssey is familiar, its narrative still feels more inventive than most contemporary novels.

Fathoms is a book of philosophy and science that might shock us out of our lethargy towards nature.

A fast-paced political thriller that hits perhaps little too close to home, and not necessarily for the right reasons.

The Grapes Of Wrath remains a bracingly strange novel about ecological crisis eight decades after it was published.

A whimsical, absurd and transgressive collection of stories about Australian masculinity.