Fiction

Locust Summer

July 2021 Book of the Month

On the cusp of Summer in 1986, Rowan Brockman is working as a journalist in the City of Perth. When his mother calls to ask if he will come ...

Spring Clean for the Peach Queen

June 2021 Book of the Month

After a night out partying leaves her boyfriend dead and her acting career in tatters, Lottie Bentz escapes the media spotlight by returning to her hometown of Bonnievale. However, ...

The Subjugate

January 2021 Book of the Month

The Subjugate is set in the eerie metropolis of San Francisco and its outskirts, a decade or so after the neuro technology Crash of 2040, the result of a ...

Skyglow, Leslie Thiele (Margaret River Press)

November 2020 Book of the Month

From the miraculous to the mechanical, Skyglow delves into the complexities of mundane life to discover truth and balance within it. Thiele’s collection of stories contains an eclectic mix ...

The History of Mischief, Rebecca Higgie (Fremantle Press)

October 2020 Book of the Month

Following the death of their parents, feisty 9-year-old Jessie and her older sister Kay move to their grandmother’s abandoned home in Guildford where they discover a book, The History ...

The Salt Madonna, Catherine Noske (Picador)

April 2020 Book of the Month

Hannah Mulvey left her island home as a teenager. But her stubborn, defiant mother is dying, and now Hannah has returned to Chesil, taking up a teaching post at ...

Fauna, Donna Mazza, (Allen & Unwin)

March 2020 Book of the Month

A young family in an eerily familiar future-Perth comes to terms with the latest addition to their family, a baby girl named Asta. While Asta is the child of ...

Red Can Origami, Madelaine Dickie (Fremantle Press)

February 2020 Book of the Month

When young Melbourne journalist Ava lands herself a job in the northwest town of Gubinge, she is warned the “country will eat you alive”. Instead, she finds “it’s got ...

Read the Book Club notes for In This Desert, There were Seeds; various contributors, ed. Elizabeth Tan and Jon Gresham (Margaret River Press and Ethos Publishing)

In This Desert, There were Seeds; various contributors, ed. Elizabeth Tan and Jon Gresham (Margaret River Press and Ethos Publishing)

January 2020 Book of the Month

In This Desert, There were Seeds is a beguiling anthology of twenty short stories from West Australian and Singaporean artists. As part of an ongoing collaboration between Writing WA ...

Out of Time, Steve Hawke (Fremantle Press)

December 2019 Book of the Month

Architect Joe Warton and his partner Anne are easing into comfortable semi-retirement when Joe notices gaps in his memory. At first he keeps his discovery to himself, becoming skilful ...