Tiny Uncertain Miracles
November 2022 Book of the MonthMarick is a late-to-God chaplain whose pastoral services bleed into the overlap between god and science. He provides peace for those whose personal realities are fraught with pain, routinely ...
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Unlimited Futures
March 2022 Book of the MonthUnlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak+Black Fiction Unlimited Futures is an anthology of speculative and visionary prose and poetry from First Nations and Black writers, edited by award-winning authors Rafeif ...
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Skimming Stones
November 2021 Book of the MonthGrace is working as a paediatric oncology nurse when a chance meeting reconnects her with childhood friend, Nate. She is drawn into an affair with him even as she ...
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Eye of a Rook
February 2021 Book of the MonthWhen Alice Tennant, a successful writer and academic and a loving wife to Duncan, succumbs to a mysterious and debilitating pain, her life as she knows it changes forever. ...
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Smart Ovens for Lonely People, Elizabeth Tan (Brio Books)
July 2020 Book of the MonthConspiracies, celebrities and therapies underpin this beguiling short story collection from Elizabeth Tan. A cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn’t have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia ...
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The Salt Madonna, Catherine Noske (Picador)
April 2020 Book of the MonthHannah 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 ...
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Fauna, Donna Mazza, (Allen & Unwin)
March 2020 Book of the MonthA 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 ...
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Red Can Origami, Madelaine Dickie (Fremantle Press)
February 2020 Book of the MonthWhen 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 ...
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Out of Time, Steve Hawke (Fremantle Press)
December 2019 Book of the MonthArchitect 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 ...
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Refuge, Richard Rossiter (UWA Publishing)
September 2019 Book of the MonthRefuge is a meditation on place and belonging which intertwines the stories of a tenderly portrayed and compelling cast of characters. Each in their bush shacks, Greta and Tinny ...
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