‘Fans both old and new will find plenty to keep them guessing’.
Gemma Nisbet
‘Eating - and not - is at the heart of Lydia’s dilemmas.’
‘What ensues borrows some of the scaffolding of a murder-mystery, but A Great Hope is, at its heart, a character-driven family saga.’
‘”I always assumed it was a matter of when, not if, I would have a child,” writes Sian Prior. In her second memoir’
Xochitl Gonzalez’s debut novel Olga Dies Dreaming must qualify as one of the buzziest of the year so far.
Carrie Cox’s second novel offers “ a balm for our ceaselessly unprecedented times”.
David Whish-Wilson’s The Sawdust House zeroes in on convict James ‘Yankee’ Sullivan, who was transported to Australia as a convict and later escaped to the US to make his name as a champion boxer.
Set in a rugged, unforgiving Icelandic landscape, Kari Gislason’s The Sorrow Stone is inspired by the Saga of Gisli.
In her critically acclaimed literary debut, Brooklyn-based author and playwright Julia May Jonas provides a strikingly memorable introduction to her two main characters.
War-time trauma lingers in Portland Jones’ Only Birds Above.
‘The result is an impressive, propulsive debut laced with dark humour’
‘Anyone who has experienced grief will find much that resonates here’
© West Australian Newspapers Limited 2022
