‘O’Beirne gifts the reader with eighteen windows into other worlds, minds and dreams, set in the past, present and future, and painted on an Australian canvas.’ –Robert Fairhead reviews A Couple of Things Before the End: Stories by Sean O’Beirne

‘The sparkling imagery and complex, nuanced characters linger long past the last pages.’ – Amanda McLeod reviews The Octopus and I by Erin Hortle

‘Some of these passages have edges as sharp as new knives while others are soft as freshly fallen snow’ – Dr Beatriz Copello reviews The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr.

Writing NSW member Michelle Wanasundera reviews this picture book from renowned author Sally Morgan and illustrator Amber Kwaymullina.

“For two hundred years, only boys have been born into the Melchior family – that is, until Henrietta Madeline Melchior came into the world, followed by a trio of shrieks eleven years, eight months and nine and a half days ago.” – Ashleigh Meikle reviews Hapless Hero Henrie by Petra James

“These essays, while concerned largely with cultural critique, also find inspiration, revelation and beauty in the everyday. The tensions of early parenthood and marriage, and the processes involved in seeking psychological health, are all rendered in a way that grasps for the existential dimensions of these experiences. ” – Tess Pearson reviews Intimate Antipathies by Luke Carman.

“Patterson’s poem Clancy of the Overflow beautifully weaves a story of urban and rural Australia in the 1880s. It’s no wonder Jackie French is able to extract such a stunning novel from its famous stanzas.” – Alison Dance reviews Clancy of the Overflow by Jackie French

“A further joy is Donoghue’s impressive breadth of knowledge, combining ancient gods and philosophy with truths about the horrors of Nazi occupation and those of a tough suburban drug culture.” – Jan Allerton reviews Akin by Emma Donoghue.

“Author, J.P. Powell, pens a frustrated Brisbane society navigating the impending “new world” in 1943 through tram lines, philosophical lines between high and low society and police officers crossing the line into corruption.” – Alison Dance reviews The Brisbane Line by J.P. Powell.