CLARE MOLETA Unsheltered. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey
Clare Moleta’s novel canvases big questions as a mother searches for her child in a hostile landscape. The opening scene of Clare Moleta’s debut novel describes...
Read MoreLUCY TRELOAR Wolfe Island. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren
This new novel from the author of Salt Creek is set in a future America that looks disturbingly familiar. There’s a gloriously metafictional moment in Mel Brooks’s 1987...
Read MoreJESSICA DETTMANN How to Be Second Best. Reviewed by Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Jessica Dettmann’s debut romantic comedy blends the family drama of Liane Moriarty with the humour of Sophie Kinsella. Emma’s husband Troy loves her. He insists...
Read MoreJENNY ACKLAND Little Gods. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren
Ackland crafts perfect scenes in Little Gods – a novel about the things that fade away: childhood, memories and ghosts. Olive Lovelock is 12 years old and fearless. She...
Read MoreKIRSTY MANNING The Jade Lily. Reviewed by Kim Kelly
Through the lens of friendship and romance The Jade Lily traces the way war smashes and transforms identity and truth. Sometimes the secrets we keep are gifts of love,...
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