Posted on 24 Nov 2022 in Fiction, SFF |
Australian Shelley Parker-Chan’s historical fantasy has won a Hugo Award for Best New Writer and two British Fantasy Awards. Shelley Parker Chan’s debut novel reimagines the rise to power of the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty in...
Posted on 22 Nov 2022 in Fiction |
Sean Prescott’s second novel recounts an escape to the country – or does it? ‘No Australian under 50 has seen a time like this in their adult lives,’ declared a recent op-ed on Black Swan events. That’s one possible way into this intense,...
Posted on 17 Nov 2022 in Fiction |
Alice Ryan’s debut novel puts an extended family on the trail of their missing Molly. Molly Black had disappeared … That’s why the whole Black clan – from Granny all the way to Killan on Zoom from Sydney – is huddled together in the...
Posted on 15 Nov 2022 in Fiction, SFF |
Octopuses and artificial intelligence feature in ‘one of the best science fiction novels of 2022’. While there are plenty of great space-battle and apocalypse and time-travel stories out there, some of the best science fiction deals in...
Posted on 10 Nov 2022 in Non-Fiction |
Anke Richter’s stories of New Zealanders’ experiences of cults raise universal questions about the appeal – and danger – of such groups. No one joins a cult. They join interesting groups that make them feel special, that give them solace,...
Posted on 8 Nov 2022 in Non-Fiction |
Ben Scheiders examines wage theft and challenges the notion that Australia is a fair-minded society. Ben Schneiders is an investigative reporter with The Age. Since 2015 he has written hundreds of articles on wage theft with colleague Royce Millar....