Review: Dark Rise by C. S. Pacat

Although slow to get going, Dark Rise ably sets the scene for CS Pacat’s YA fantasy trilogy.

Review: Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor continues to explore Black, queer Midwest life.

A collection of haunted stories that unsettle like the melting permafrost of the title.

A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.

A story of growing up black and queer in the UK.

Detransition, Baby is out to shake your notions of gender and family to their core.

A furious and thrilling novel about the “lives you might have had.”

My pick of the recent Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

A tremendously rewarding novel about love in the cruellest of places.

A tale of despair, illness and poverty that captures the swooping highs and devastating lows of life.