Review by Manu Patil A change-provoking novel, The Good Captain takes us on a journey through a dying ocean on a ship full of radical environmentalists and dirty politics, exploring a grim reality. Adding to the growing genre of Cli-Fi, Sean Rabin…
Review by Phoebe Cuskelly Inga Simpson’s The Last Woman in the World exploits the fear inspired by Australian environmental disasters to deliver a post-apocalyptic thriller. The novel revolves around Rachel, a social recluse living off the coastline of New South…
Review by Jack Bell The most common thing you’re likely to hear about Shrines of Gaiety is that it’s Dickensian. That word will be on the back blurb of your copy, you’ll see it pop up in almost every review,…
Review by Josephine Renee – Does Perfect on Paper handle important relationship issues? Yes. – Are queer and questioning themes discussed at length? Absolutely. – And is there an Aussie nestled into the love triangle of this American high school…
By Shelbi Lascelles Spanning 22 years, John Purcell’s The Lessons, is a bildungsroman looking into the formative years that led to the destruction and rebirth of a young girl, following the basic premise of girl meets boy, girl and boy…
The Last Days by Ali Millar, reviewed by Taylor Beckett ‘There was never any possibility of escaping God… God was the whole world, and I was his puppet’ Ali Miller’s The Last Days is a haunting memoir of a girl…
Review by Grace Harvey Based on a real-life shipwreck off the Dutch Island of Texel, Lauren Chater’s The Winter Dress promises an ‘intriguing story of love, loss and fulfilment’. It definitely didn’t live up to these heights. I was left…
Illustrated by Claudia Pilbeam Strictly speaking, Sir Fourpaws wasn’t a stray. Sure, he was clambering up a downpipe and putting his claws in all the same places as last time, going hup hup hup up to a distant third floor,…
Review by Danielle Aylward Once a thriving centre of stockyards and sheep stations, years of punishing drought have petrified the land and Nannine has been whittled down to no more than a stoplight, a couple of bars, and a police…
Illustrated by Claudia Pilbeam CW: drug use, smoking. Susie’s dark eyelids began to droop, heavy like wet clothes after a downpour. But the burning glow of the television seared the back of her retina and kept her conscious. It might…
