Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2025
Cover design by Hazel Lam
Cover images Magdalena Russocko/Trevillion Images; Shutterstock; iStock
Contemporary society seems obsessed with labelling and boxing things and publishing is no exception. I am told that The Campers has been deemed to be neighbourhood noir. I prefer to characterise this scintillating writing as literary fiction – without any connotation of elitism or opacity.
Ultimo Press, Australia, 2022
Cover design by Ella Egidy
There is much to say about this piece of fine literary fiction by Nigel Featherstone. Let me start, however, with place.
Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2022
Cover design and drawing Alissa Dinallo
The Islands is utterly beautiful. Emily Brugman’s writing is sublime, an immersive, deliciously slow sinking for the reader into place and time.
Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2021
Cover design: Christa Moffitt
Map: Mika Tabata
This book is a masterpiece of atmospheric evocation, a family tale exploring the need to acknowledge our pasts in order to be whole.
Greta and Joel, our central characters are complex individuals, a couple joined it seems by their need to constantly move on and a capacity to allow the other not to speak of things – until they return to Joel’s family home in the Northern Territory to renovate the property for a tourism project. It is then that the past itself takes on a character role and insists on disclosure. The revelation of Joel’s secrets ultimately leads to Greta’s unveiling as well.
