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.

Review: A Treacherous Country by K. M. Kruimink

A strange and misty novel set in colonial Van Diemen’s Land.

An aching novel of a young man trying to find a place in the world.

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

A dreamy, mirage-like novel where things change shape before your eyes.

Poly is a riot of a novel, an all out brawl.

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

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

What would happen if a married woman behaved like a man? Fleishman Is In Trouble provides the answer.

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