Book Reviews
A Place Between Waking and Forgetting by Eugen Bacon
A Place Between Waking and Forgetting is a magical, mysterious tour de force of Black speculative fiction.
Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth by Niamh Mulvey
In this debut collection, Mulvey explores the fraught relationships, loves and milestones that define a life.
We All Lived In Bondi Then by Georgia Blain
An evocative and heart-rending collection of previously unpublished short stories from Georgia Blain.
Always Will Be by Mykaela Saunders
Ambitious and thought-provoking in scope, this award-winning spec-fic collection tackles the idea of future sovereignty in the Tweed.
Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay
Laura Jean McKay’s latest short story collection combines heart-breaking revelations and inverted realities to strip bare the undeniable truths of very real issues.
The Dominant Animal by Kathryn Scanlan
The tragicomic narratives in this short story collection border on fable-like, where much is left unsaid and readers are left to consider their own moral takeaways.
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
Ma’s short story collection ventures into the surreal, the unknown and the unexpected.
An Ordinary Ecstasy by Luke Carman
Exaltation and banality are at the core of this short story collection, where ‘ordinary’ Australians experience life’s raptures and ruptures.
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
Shame, desire and the crushing weight of capitalism - this debut short story collection has it all.
Miniatures by Susan Midalia
This delightful collection of “short short stories” is an example of how to write precisely, with brevity, and obey all the golden writing rules.
Shit Cassandra Saw by Gwen E. Kirby
Kirby’s debut collection is a bold, madcap adventure through the lives and voices of historical women.
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez, trans by Megan McDowell
Supernatural, macabre and utterly engrossing, these twelve short stories will be sure to send a shiver down your spine.
Women I Know by Katerina Gibson
An unsettling and darkly humorous collection of stories from a talented new writer.
Sadvertising: Stories From the Margins of Creativity by Ennis Ćehić
This debut short story collection is a weird, surreal and utterly inventive metaverse of the advertising world.
Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo
In this collection of raw and real short stories, Taddeo brings us another ferocious does of female desire and competition.
Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu
This debut short story collection from a queer Indonesian writer explores longing, loss and missed chances.
Permafrost by SJ Norman
A brilliant and haunting collection of short fiction that exposes the darker, mythical underbelly of reality.
Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
The mystical and the dystopian converge in these speculative short stories that explore family, womanhood, migration and tradition.
Send Nudes by Saba Sams
In ten quietly assertive stories, Saba Sams’ debut allows its reader a glimpse into the messiness and painful contradictions of girlhood.
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer
Wolitzer's short stories explore the course of an ordinary marriage with wit, candor and grace.