Review: Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

A vast, “open-wound theatre” that peers deep into a continent’s soul.

Review: We Come With This Place by Debra Dank

A rich and beautiful history of family and place.

Review: This All Come Back Now (edited by Mykaela Saunders)

A spectacular anthology of First Nations spec fic.

Review: Against Disappearance (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh and Adolfo Aranjuez)

A challenging, demanding and exciting collection of nonfiction.

Review: Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki

A stunning reimagining of the archives to reveal the people within them.

Review: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.

Review: Born Into This by Adam Thompson

Born Into This is an effective demand to be heard.

Review: Collisions (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein and Hassan Abul)

Collisions aims to “shift the Australian imaginary”.

Review: Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green

A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.

Review: Song Of The Crocodile by Nardi Simpson

Another unpredictable and unsettling novel from the latest flourishing of Aboriginal writing.