Cirrus@Austlit

'While we struggle with COVID and global warming narratives, Fire Flood Plague offers news perspectives on what has happened to the world around us.'

'The third instalment in Melbourne poet Π.O’s trilogy is a playful journey through Australian art history.'

'Biographer Sylvia Martin finally turns her pen on herself.'

'Aftershocks is Macris’ selected interviews, essays and criticism as he asks, what comes after postmodernism in art?'

'What could be Australia’s last and least known genocide is laid bare in Coniston, which occurred just more than 100 years ago.'

Death of a Typographer is a Melbourne-noir murder mystery with a successfully fantastical and complex plot.

'Marshall fuses Australiana with magical realism by blending beast, man, fact and fiction in his debut short story collection.'

'Wood's The Weekend confronts prejudices about old age and shows there is much more ahead for the author and her characters.'

'PIGEONHOLED is an act of defiance as much as it is a swing at the glass ceiling of genre writing.'

'From his balcony overlooking Sydney Harbour, Hawke sits down with Rielly to talk love, politics, friends, foes, and death.'

'Adelaide’s sharp, casual, to-the-point sentences are both silently aesthetic on the page and a pleasure to read aloud.'

'A diverse range of styles, voices and topics explore Australia in the Anthropocene age.'

'Guillaume's debut YA novel chooses to uplift rather than shoot teenagers in a barrel. And that's laudable.'

'The strange and dangerous psychological space Tiffany inhabits focuses on small details that make up the whole.'

'A fantastic introduction for serious fiction readers and a panoramic view of one of Melbourne's most important literary characters.'

'Cunningham’s essays on love, travel and nature humanise trees and animals, mixing the Anthropocene with the romantic.'

'Gorton’s meditations take on a contemporary romanticism towards Melbourne and contrast it with the history of empire.'

'Academic Chris Fleming’s memoir is confronting, interesting, reassuring and offers insight into who and what drug addicts are.'

'Jacobson reminisces on Jewish culture, family, dementia, anxiety and love in a haunting and beautiful poetry collection.'

'Preservation tells the story of three sea merchants from the Sydney Cove, marooned on Colonial Australia.'