writing and publishing
Book review: The Echoes, Evie Wyld
Family secrets unravel after death and the haunting of the afterlife.
Book review: Queen Macbeth, Val McDermid
A revisionist account that focuses on Lady Macbeth rather than her husband.
Book review: Peripathetic, Cher Tan
A debut collection of essays that track unbelonging and displacement.
Book groups: community-building hubs
A shared love of literary treats can bring a community together.
Book review: Big Time, Jordan Prosser
Jordan Prosser’s much-touted first novel sometimes flies off its own tracks, but is nonetheless a very impressive debut.
Book review: Ghost Cities, Siang Lu
A playful and metafictional novel about storytelling, Chinese history and contemporary society.
Book review: The Mires, Tina Makereti
Set in the near future, the novel tracks a small community through explorations of place, ideology and ecology.
Book review: If You Go, Alice Robinson
The relationships between mothers and children are explored in a futuristic setting.
Literary Olympics: what wordsmith events would be on the program?
Imagine if there were an Olympics that favoured (bookish) brains over brawn. What would it look like?
Book review: R.E.Generation, Michael Prewer
A dystopian novel that sees climate change erase mammalian life forms. What now?