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Here you can find all of our past book reviews plus articles, Q&As and author inspiration pieces.


Review of Ordinary People Like Us by Kelly Ann Morey
A generational story that follows a line of Māori mothers and their daughters, navigating the world.
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1 min read


Review of What Kind of Mother by Judy Sandler
This is a raw and unflinching memoir of family, motherhood and a son’s struggles with mental ill health (bipolar disorder) and addiction.
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1 min read


Review of The Strangling Fig by Fauzia Musa
The Strangling Fig is a gorgeously written ghost story that follows generations of women from the 1940s Partition of India through to 2000s America.
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1 min read


Hot Water, Summer Settings and Lockdown Writing: by Bhavika Govil
Summer is a time that evokes childhood, beauty and freedom, but also becomes a setting to set a family’s tensions against, asking if they can ever break out of their own trappings.
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2 min read


Review of Hot Water by Bhavika Govil
With a Rooney-esque penchant for frustrating communication styles, you'll like this book if you enjoy wanting to shake characters through the pages. Be prepared to unravel along with them.
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1 min read


Review of Mr Sidhu's Post Office by Amman Brar
Mr Sidhu’s Post Office is the ultimate heart-warming novel, centring around Mr Sidhu, or David, as he's known to those in the community, who runs the local post office.
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1 min read


Review of The Traveler by Joseph Eckert
Family and heartbreak stretch through the eternity of this story as one man finds himself jumping through time.
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1 min read


Review of Mother, Ghost, Mango Seed by Natalie Gregory
Grab a peach iced tea, set up a reading spot and prepare to be transported to the heat of present-day and 1976 Thailand, where Lin returns to care for her dying mother.
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1 min read


Q&A with Elisa Faison: Author of Skin Contact
Over the next five years, they explore their sexualities, navigating through jealousy, betrayal, desire, and obsession—and the friends and lovers in their circle find themselves asking new questions about their own lives and relationships. But when each is pulled in a new and unexpected direction, Ben and Frances are forced to confront the consequences of their experiment.
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6 min read


The Leveret: Anna Goldreich on Grief, Miscarriage and Queerness in her Debut Novel
So many people have experienced miscarriage, and yet it’s hardly spoken about. Even less so in the context of queer relationships, where the journey to pregnancy is often so much more complex.
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3 min read


Review of A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang
From the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and through the Cultural Revolution to the present day, Yang explores the legacy of colonialism through three generations.
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1 min read
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