AYESHA INOON Untethered. Reviewed by Ann Skea

AYESHA INOON Untethered. Reviewed by Ann Skea

Winner of the the ASA/HQ Fiction Prize, Ayesha Inoon’s debut novel explores the experience of moving from Sri Lanka to Australia. It was the silence that she noticed first. As they drove, Canberra unfolded in a series of stunning panoramas … The streets were empty,...
CHRISTY LEFTERI Songbirds. Reviewed by Ann Skea

CHRISTY LEFTERI Songbirds. Reviewed by Ann Skea

The new novel from the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo explores the life of foreign workers on the island of Cyprus. The day that Nisha vanished, before I even realized she’d gone, I saw in the forest a mouflon ovis. I thought it was odd. These ancient sheep, native...
ROMESH GUNESEKERA Suncatcher. Reviewed by Ann Skea

ROMESH GUNESEKERA Suncatcher. Reviewed by Ann Skea

This new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Reef explores memories of a Sri Lankan childhood. Kairo is looking back at his younger self: at a summer in his home in Colombo in 1964, when school was closed and he was aimlessly riding his bike around a...