Our latest reviews
The Hitwoman’s Guide to Reducing Household Debt by Mark Mupotsa-Russell
Olivia Hodges is not religious, but she is superstitious, and she does believe in divine intervention; she hopes the universe will forgive her for her past actions. In Olivia’s past, before she was a loving wife and a mother to…
The Chilling by Riley James
Kit, fleeing from the crumbling ruins of her marriage, joins a team of Australian researchers travelling to Antarctica to study the behaviour of seals. But on their way, they receive a distress signal from another team of researchers nearby. They…
The Death of Dora Black: A Petticoat Police Mystery by Lainie Anderson
In 1915, Australia’s first female police officers were appointed. In Adelaide, Kate Cocks became the first policewoman in the entire British empire to be paid the same as her male counterparts. Before this, women had worked for the police, but…
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
In the end, of course, it is Olive Kitteridge who tells it like it is. However, before that happens, you do get to spend an entire wonderful year with Bob Burgess and his dear friend, Lucy Barton. Elizabeth Strout’s poignant…
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room, is back with a literary spy novel, Creation Lake. In it, we meet former FBI agent Sadie Smith, who takes on undercover work in remote France. She is…
We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida & E. Madison Shimoda (trans.)
Nestled in an old and rundown building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul (which conveniently is next to a veterinarian’s office) is a mysterious place somewhere in between East of Takoyakushi…
Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura & Lucy North (trans.)
In 2023 I was introduced to Natsuko Imamura through her book The Woman in the Purple Skirt. I was so pleased to meet her (Imamura, that is), and so I was excited to learn that she had a new…
Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
If you’re a fan of Korean translations, you might recognise the name Anton Hur, belonging to the translator of the bestselling therapy memoir, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki and the International Booker-shortlisted story collection Cursed…
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
Described by Matt Haig as his ‘big life-and-love-and-the-universe novel’, The Life Impossible is the newest book by the bestselling author of The Midnight Library. I loved both of these books before I even finished reading them. This one was…
Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi
New Lagos, Nigeria. The books opens with the parting of a couple, Kalu and Aima, who are filled with love and grief in equal parts. Their move back to Nigeria from Texas, along with societal pressures, has put pressures on…
Browse our reviews by category
