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Kokomo is Victoria Hannan’s debut novel set in Melbourne, Australia. Mina lives in London and is urgently called home after years abroad...

A byword is commonly associated to Boy Parts, Eliza Clarke's debut novel: Northern filth. I scan my bookshelf. I look at my Goodreads...

A standard definition of caste, found on Wikipedia, is “a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary...

Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...

When a young adolescent, Lily, goes missing one summer evening everyone is shaken by the disturbance to mundane normality. Rachel, who is...

Pew is what happens when you take a vague figure—genderless, young but hard to pin an exact age, racially ambiguous—and throw them into...

The beginning of this book begins with staccato sentences that leave you stalling at every turn. Took so much effort to invest. To want...

At times it is hard to believe that Luster is Raven Leilani’s debut novel. She writes with the confidence and flair of a seasoned...

The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing is without a doubt a refreshment, a story not important what about, but important how it is told. It...

This week; Emily St John Mandel, Temi Oh, Madeline Miller, Jessica Goudeau, Guadalupe Nettel, Tessa Hadley, Elena Ferranta & more.

Reviews of this book suggest Cline is good at telling a dark story. I didn’t read the stories as dark tales. Men often behave badly.

Poly is a charging force on the Australian literary scene; redefining ideas of a “happy family” in a more diverse, accepting, and less...

"I comped Cassidy Holmes to Spice Girls crossed with Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng when I pitched it."

For fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and Perfect Tunes, this debut novel comes out of the gates swinging, aiming directly for your heart.

In this delightful, funny, and thought-provoking memoir, Canadian Ashley Kalagian-Blunt convinces her career-obsessed husband, Steve, to...

Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...

If you are looking for the perfect book to binge over a weekend where it is just you, takeaway, and some wine this is the one to grab....

Welcome to a celebration of translated literature by women, thanks to Women In Translation Month. August became a month dedicated to...

“Trinidad likes to tout itself as this cosmopolitan melting pot, swirling with all the flavors of the race rainbow. But in fact, if...

In 2020 I vowed that I would only read what I really felt drawn and connected to, and if that meant deciding not to finish books simply...

This week; Toni Morrison, Tom Perrotta, Emma Cline, Ocean Vuong, Carmen Maria Machado, Hank Green, Liane Moriarty, Adania Shibli & many more

From October 2018 through September 2019, I was lucky enough to be taught by Lynn in Catapult’s Novel Generator class. It was a year-long...

If anyone, your closest friend, your mom, even a stranger, anyone, came up to you right now and asked you what you wanted more than...

MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS THROUGHOUT THIS REVIEW: Racism, rape/sexual assault, domestic violence, colonization, exoticization, etc. You know...