Review: The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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

Review: Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)

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

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

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 sweet and simple story about growing up in parallel worlds, Melbourne and Prague in 1980.

A hilarious novel about mortality and ageing.

Celestial Bodies achieves a kind of literary perfection.

The Bell is like a delicious and unlikely combination of two Luca Guadagnino films: Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria.

In 2019 I gravitated to stories of radical, political change (can you blame me?), and there seemed to be a surplus available.