Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella Atlantic Fiction Twenty-five-year-old Brian didn’t think his self-destructive phase would last as long as it has. He had moved into a dirt-cheap studio apartment in the city nearly a year ago to get on with his life, but he had barely even unpacked. With a job waiting in a […]
The Guest Room by Tasha Sylva Welbeck Publishing The headline was “33 Year-old Woman Found Dead in London Park”. Of course, there was much more to the story. There were the unknown events that led to the taking of a life and the people left behind to grieve without any progress being made by police […]
365 Gays of the Year Lewis Laney Murdoch Books Lewis Laney’s chunky coffee table book 365 Gays of the Year has a simple premise, an entry for each day of the year highlighting an LGBTIQA+ person or ally that is of note. From 1st of January until 31st December there’s an interesting person for each day of […]
Time After Time by Karly Lane Allen & Unwin Australian author Karly Lane has written over twenty fiction books, all set in small rural towns and blending contemporary stories with historical heritage. While I thought her latest book was going to be a ‘sliding doors’ tale, it ended up being a comparison between two generations […]
Gwen & Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher Bloomsbury Although there has never been any evidence that King Arthur and his Round Table of knights actually existed, legend has it that he ruled England sometime in the late 5th century or early 6th century. For centuries, people have relished the tales of Camelot, […]
Warrior Girl Unearthed By Angeline Boulley Oneworld Publications Following on from her #1 New York Times bestseller The Firekeeper’s Daughter, Angeline Boulley, a former director of the Office of Indian Education at the US Department of Education, has created a thriller that is anchored in both the past and present of Native Americans. At the […]
The Rush by Michelle Prak Simon & Schuster After consecutive years of drought, a large storm is approaching the remote outback where four young backpackers are sharing costs to travel from Adelaide. They hadn’t expected to be caught in the middle of a torrential downpour and tensions are mounting in the back of the car […]
Echo Lake by Joan Sauers Allen & Unwin It was a small dark house in the middle of nowhere that needed a shitload of work to be done to it. But to recently divorced historian Rose McHugh, the house in the Southern Highlands, two hours from Sydney, it was a cosy escape from her previous […]
We Could Be Something By Will Kostakis Allen & Unwin Seventeen year-old Harvey Barker has noticed that there had been growing animosity between his two dads for a while, but he wasn’t prepared to be woken up by one of his fathers in the middle of the night, packing his bag to fly with him […]
I Had a Father in Karratha Annette Trevitt Upswell Author Annette Trevitt shares the journey she went on when her father suddenly passed away in this emotional but easy-reading memoir. Her parents had split up when she was a young girl and her father had built a new life thousands of kilometres away, travelling to […]
