Review: Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton

Visions of harsh life.

Review: Firelight by John Morrissey

Lingering unease.

Review: Take It Outside (edited by Cash Torn and Orlando Silver)

Does what it says on the tin.

Review: Always Will Be by Mikaela Saunders

Radical visions of the future.

Review: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)

Lithe, spectral stories.

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Review: Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

Amusing, playful and inventive short stories.

Review: Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson

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

Review: Vā (edited by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young

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

Review: An Exciting And Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rossa

Stories that illuminate the condition of the modern world.