Molly Smith
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Review — 27 Oct 2024
Gliff by Ali Smith
Ali Smith writes the fiction that we need. I last read her work in 2011, and though I regret not returning to her for so long, it has been quite…
Review — 21 Apr 2024
Ghost Cities by Siang Lu
Siang Lu’s protagonist, Xiang Lu, is fired from his job as a Mandarin–English translator at Sydney’s Chinese Consulate on account of his not being able to speak Mandarin. This, the…
Review — 20 Apr 2023
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
This is Tan Twan Eng’s first book in over 10 years, and the long-awaited successor to his Booker-shortlisted The Garden of Evening Mists. The story opens with Lesley Hamlyn…
Review — 27 Mar 2023
The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
The fishing village of Lee Ah Boon’s birth is a place of mangroves, mudskippers and the sound of waves receding over sand. His days are shaped by his rivalry with…
Review — 26 Oct 2022
Mountainfell by Katharine Orton
From the author of Nevertell and Glassheart comes a tale of magic and courage.
Erksin is the shy and lonely child of the Mountainkeeper – the person tasked with keeping…
Review — 28 Jul 2022
Every Version of You by Grace Chan
In Grace Chan’s debut novel, we meet Tao-Yi in the year 2087. She and her friends are ushering in the new year at a virtual beach party, unaware that a…
Review — 26 Jul 2022
The Thief who Sang Storms by Sophie Anderson
The island of Morovia is home to both humans and the bird–people named alkonosts. The alkonosts, with their singing magic, have been banished, and are treated with suspicion by the…
