Fiction
![Thunderhead. On the left is a book cover of clouds in a dark blue sky, with large pearls dotted across the cover, and the title running down the sides. On the right is a black and white headshot of a young white woman with long straight hair and a fringe.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/image0011.png?w=310)
Book review: Thunderhead, Miranda Darling
Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, this novella explores coercive control.Â
![No Church in the Wild. Murray Middleton. Image on the left is an author upper body shot of a white man in his 20s/30s sitting at a wooden table with his hands clasped on the table, and wearing a blue jumper. On the right is the book cover, which features a facade of a block of commission flats with the book's title laid over the balconies.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Untitled-design-201.jpg?w=310)
Book review: No Church in the Wild, Murray Middleton
A complex and confronting story about migrant youth from the towers of Melbourne's inner west, their teachers and the local…
![Dirt Poor Islanders. Image on left is an author shot from the thighs up of a young Islander woman all in black with long black hair and her arms crossed in front of her against a red backdrop. On the right is a book cover of an empty yellow drink can with pink flowers wound around it. Winnie Dunn.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Untitled-design-181.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Dirt Poor Islanders, Winnie Dunn
Winnie Dunn's debut is the first novel to explore the diffusion of a Tongan-Australian culture.
![The White Cockatoo Flowers Stories. Image on left is a headshot of a man of Chinese appearance, with head turned towards the camera. On the right is a book cover, which is black with an illustration of a white sulphur crested cockatoo sitting on a branch of a pomegranate tree with a couple of the fruits above it.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Untitled-design-171.jpg?w=310)
Book review: The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories, Ouyang Yu
'The White Cockatoo Flowers; Stories' is the first collection of stories published by Chinese-Australian author Ouyang Yu in English.
![Sanctuary. On the left is a full body author shot of a white man in black standing on a forest path with his hands in his pockets. On the right is the book cover of a dusty outback road heading into off towards the horizon.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Untitled-design-61.png?w=310)
Book review: Sanctuary, Garry Disher
A gripping story of an unconventional thief who longs for normality.
![The Beauties. Image on left is a white woman with long wavy dark hair, wearing a brownish top in front of foliage. On the right is a book cover featuring a 17th century woman in a puffy blue dress holding a flower.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/beauties-2.jpg?w=310)
Book review: The Beauties, Lauren Chater
An historical fiction set in the 17th century about female agency, art and power.
![Whenever You're Ready. Image on left is a headshot of Trish Bolton, a middle aged woman with grey wavy shoulder length hair. On right is a pink book cover with an illustration of a table laid for tea with a teapot, watermelon and a banksia in a in jar. The title is in green and the author's name in white.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/bolton-2.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Whenever You're Ready, Trish Bolton
A debut novel from a Melbourne-based author in which a trio of 70-something women take the spotlight.
![Cool Water. On the left is a head shot of a woman with red lipstick and short dark hair, she is looking slightly defensively at the camera. On the right is a blue book cover of a fish in a jar and the title in yellow.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/jones.png?w=310)
Book review: Cool Water, Myfanwy Jones
Fathers and sons and how damage can be inherited.
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Book review: Always Will Be, Mykaela Saunders
Speculative fiction that foregrounds the Indigenous experience.
![What I Would Do to You. On the left is an author headshot of a smiling Caucasian woman with large leaf-shaped dangly earrings, red lipstick and short red/brown hair with a fringe combed to one side. The book cover on the right has the title in big black letters over images of cut flowers.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/ta.png?w=310)
Book review: What I Would Do to You, Georgia Harper
What would you do if faced with the shocking conundrum explored here?