Review: Shirley by Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott renders pre-pandemic life scintillatingly strange.

Review: Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

Taught and supple as leather, menacing and poignant.

Review: The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

A sweeping, grandiose tale of love and war.

Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (translated by Mara Feye Lethem)

A short, elemental novel pulsing with the rhythms of time.

Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo

A bracing dose of retro-strangeness.

Review: Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson

I screamed, I cackled, I winced my way through these delicious short stories.

Review: Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy

Brings the excitement and adventure of living through the polar night to life.

Review: Marlo by Jay Carmichael

An evocative portrayal of queer life under oppression.

Best books I’ve read 2022

My favourite reads of the year.

Review: Vā (edited by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young

A rich series of stories and poems from the Pacific Ocean.