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Working for the Brand: How Corporations Are Destroying Free Speech by Josh Bornstein
In the latest eye-opening Australian nonfiction offering this year, high-profile Melbourne lawyer Josh Bornstein sounds the alarm regarding freedom of expression in the digital age. No, he’s not arguing for what he terms the ‘inanity of free speech absolutism’, rather…
No One Will Know by Rose Carlyle
Eve is all alone – no friends or family to turn towards, her boyfriend killed in a car accident, and his wealthy family wanting nothing to do with her, even after learning she is pregnant with his child.
Then she…
The Ledge by Christian White
Twenty-four years ago, four boys were best friends, inseparable, like brothers. That was until the night that changed everything, when their friend Aaron ran away from home. Now, years later, human remains are uncovered in the forest and their secret…
Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio
In Graveyard Shift, M.L. Rio, author of If We Were Villains, crafts an atmospheric novella that blends modern Gothic horror with a dark academic setting. The story revolves around an ancient college cemetery, where five mismatched individuals cross…
The Great When: A Long London Novel by Alan Moore
1949: in a still-Blitzed and shell-shocked London, the hapless and gormless Dennis Knuckleyard works as a bookseller (as a bookseller with subpar levels of hap and gorm myself, I can sympathise). A straightforward stroll into Soho to buy up some…
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk & Antonia Lloyd-Jones (trans.)
The Empusium is the newest novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Olga Tokarczuk. The title is a neologism combining Empusa, a shape-shifting woman from Greek myth, and ‘symposium’, where men gather to drink and revel in lively discussion, occasions which are…
Intermezzo (special edition hardback) by Sally Rooney
There are more variations in a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe. In her latest novel, Intermezzo, Sally Rooney has written a highly original permutation of the love story.
The book centres on two…
Playground by Richard Powers
I am not a beach person. Traumatised by a near-drowning as a child, given the choice, I will head for hills over coast every single time. So this book, most of which is set either beneath the waves or on…
Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq & Shaun Whiteside (trans.)
Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation shoves us into the existential despair of the French civil servant Paul Raison, who is navigating the crumbling foundations of his personal life and the society which surrounds him. The title itself is suggestive – an obliteration…
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst
I’ll start at the end and say that when I finished reading Our Evenings I felt quite bereft. I can’t recall when I was last so invested in the lives of fictional people. Some tears were shed.
In his seventh…
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