The Octopus and I, Erin Hortle
A stunning debut novel set on the Tasmanian coast that lays bare the wild, beating heart at the intersection of … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Cultural/Regional
The Seed Thief, Jacqui L’Ange
Jacqui L’Ange’s debut novel, The Seed Thief, will be made into a film. According to The Reading List, rights to the novel … Continue reading →
The Deep Blue Between, Ayesha Harruna Attah
Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina’s home is in ruins after a brutal raid. But this is not the end but … Continue reading →
Blaze Island, Catherine Bush
Climate change is both an external and internal phenomenon in Catherine Bush’s brilliant new novel, Blaze Island. Set on an … Continue reading →
Seasonal Series, Ali Smith
Echoing Keats’s famous ode, the book is punctuated by placid country scenes of grain being harvested, birds flying south, days … Continue reading →
Limbo: A Novel about Jamaica, Esther Figueroa
Flora Smith, Jamaican scientist and head of tiny NGO Environment Now, dedicates her life to getting Jamaicans to care about … Continue reading →
Tiger Boy, Mitali Perkins
When a tiger cub escapes from a nature reserve near Neel’s island village, the rangers and villagers hurry to find … Continue reading →
Potiki, Patricia Grace
‘Destroy the land and sea, we destroy ourselves.’ On the remote coast of New Zealand, at the curve that binds … Continue reading →
The Unpassing, Chia-Chia Lin
With flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, Lin explores the fallout after the loss of … Continue reading →
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, Ntozake Shange
As with many ecofeminist novels, the structure is not linear and contains many asides, recipes, spells, letters and other ephemera. … Continue reading →