the book slut

Kokomo is Victoria Hannan’s debut novel set in Melbourne, Australia. Mina lives in London and is urgently called home after years abroad...

A byword is commonly associated to Boy Parts, Eliza Clarke's debut novel: Northern filth. I scan my bookshelf. I look at my Goodreads...

A standard definition of caste, found on Wikipedia, is “a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary...

Every week we’re sharing what our some of our writers are currently reading. For all of our US readers, we now have our own Bookshop! You...

When a young adolescent, Lily, goes missing one summer evening everyone is shaken by the disturbance to mundane normality. Rachel, who is...

Pew is what happens when you take a vague figure—genderless, young but hard to pin an exact age, racially ambiguous—and throw them into...

The beginning of this book begins with staccato sentences that leave you stalling at every turn. Took so much effort to invest. To want...

At times it is hard to believe that Luster is Raven Leilani’s debut novel. She writes with the confidence and flair of a seasoned...

The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing is without a doubt a refreshment, a story not important what about, but important how it is told. It...

This week; Emily St John Mandel, Temi Oh, Madeline Miller, Jessica Goudeau, Guadalupe Nettel, Tessa Hadley, Elena Ferranta & more.

Reviews of this book suggest Cline is good at telling a dark story. I didn’t read the stories as dark tales. Men often behave badly.

Poly is a charging force on the Australian literary scene; redefining ideas of a “happy family” in a more diverse, accepting, and less...