Fiction
![queer fairy tales. Image is a smiling bearded man with multicoloured framed glasses and one big dangly multicoloured earring on the left, and a book cover on the right depicting an oval green landscape image with a river and crescent moon, surrounded by foliage.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/light.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Everything Under the Moon, edited by Michael Earp
A beautiful collection of original and reimagined 'fairy tales told in a queerer light'.
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Australian Podcast Awards announce 2023 winners
Celebrating Australia's best and most popular audio content, this year's podcast awards gave 30 gongs to everything from true crime…
![The Opposite of Success. Image is a black and white author's pic of a woman in a flowery blouse with glasses and shoulder length hair parted on the side, sitting with arms crossed on a table. She is smiling at the camera. On the right is a green and pink book cover with an illustration of a cheerless woman with her chin on her arm, behind a wine glass.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/Untitled-design-2023-11-23T094654.321.jpg?w=310)
Book review: The Opposite of Success, Eleanor Elliott Thomas
A witty and charming debut about motherhood, friendship and work in contemporary times.
![Everyone on this Train is a Suspect. Image is an author headshot of a bearded, dark haired man with a black v neck t-shirt, against a yellow background, and on the right hand side a book cover of the book's title in large font and a bird of prey with wings outstretched.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/train.png?w=310)
Book review: Everyone on this Train is a Suspect, Benjamin Stevenson
An intriguing mystery yarn where a trainload of mystery writers are themselves the detectives.
![The Naturalist of Amsterdam. Image is a side on above the bust author's shot of a woman in a green shirt with light red shoulder length hair. smiling, and on the right an orange book cover featuring a sparse tree, two butterflies and a caterpillar.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/amster.jpg?w=310)
Book review: The Naturalist of Amsterdam, Melissa Ashley
Ashley's latest book is an historical fiction set at the turn of the 18th century and featuring unsung women who…
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Music Review: Ecstasy, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Series 8, Adelaide Town Hall
The ASO's final Symphony Series for 2023 featured outstanding contributions from violinist Anthony Marwood and conductor Chloé van Soeterstède.
![Only Sound Remains. Image is a book cover of a black soundwave on a light background and on the right an author's headshot of a man in black T shirt, colourful shirt, glasses, beard and peaked cap.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/silence.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Only Sound Remains, Hossein Asgari
A novel exploring a father-son relationship and Iranian diasporic poetry.
![Green Dot. Image is of a woman from the waist up with short red hair and a red shirt, and on the right a book cover of a black and white illustration of a faceless woman in front of a burning house.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/dot.jpg?w=310)
Book review: Green Dot, Madeleine Gray
This impressive debut explores the complexities of love in the context of an illicit workplace romance.
![Cover of At the Foot of the Cherry Tree and a picture of the author, Alli Parker, a young woman with long brown hair wearing a blue/grey jumper.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/At-the-Food-of-the-Cherry-Tree-Alli-Parker.jpg?w=310)
Book review: At the Foot of the Cherry Tree by Alli Parker
The moving true story of a WWII love that changed the White Australia policy.
![The In-Between. image is a book cover showing two tiny figures on the horizon beneath the book's title, next to a head and chest shot of the author on the right, a smiling middle-aged man in a black buttoned up shirt, standing in front of foliage.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/tsio.jpg?w=310)
Book review: The In-Between, Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas' new novel is a tender and poignant tale about a later-life romance between two men.