Review: The Adventures Of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre)

Lesbians! Cowboys! Argentina!

Review: The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)

This is a novel that does what it says: a truly discomforting tale of death and grief set in a grim twilight world.

Stone Sky Gold Mountain offers a rearranging of Australian history, reminding us other settlers were also here in the early days.

Cherry Beach is a painful portrait of millennial queer life, and agonising desire.

Cleanness is a book of lofty ideas, grounded in the flesh.

Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet is over. What a journey, and what a time for it to end.

The Animals In That Country is premised on the idea that if we could suddenly understand what are animals are saying, it would drive us insane.

A mammoth and a tyrannosaurus skeleton find themselves in storage, setting the stage for a fascinating and ultimately moving romp through history.

Christmas Eve, 1617, an extraordinary storm – almost supernatural – emerges from the Arctic Ocean and, “like a finger snap”, … More

Mark O’Connell is a very entertaining, self-effacing and thoughtful companion to the end of the world.