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Read an extract from Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent

Ripped from a forgotten homeland as a child, Tisaanah learned how to survive with nothing…

High Wire – BFI London Film Festival Review

Go-Wing (Isabella Wei) works in her dad’s (Dominic Lam Kah-Wah) Chinese takeaway in the middle…

Book Review: Hot Wax by M. L. Rio

It’s summer 1989 and ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden…

Love Me Tender – BFI London Film Festival Review

Lawyer-turned-writer Clémence (Vicky Krieps) has been amicably separated from her husband Laurent (Antoine Reinartz) for…

Love, Brooklyn – BFI London Film Festival Review

Roger’s (André Holland) life revolves around two women. First there’s Casey (Nicole Beharie), a gallery…

Fwends – BFI London Film Festival Review

Em (Emmanuelle Mattana) is a young Sydney lawyer who’s just experienced harassment at work. She…

Fall into Fantasy: 14 books to read as the October nights draw in

The leaves are falling and there’s a chill in the air, which means it’s time…

Rachel Greenlaw on the inspiration behind The Ordeals

Inspiration for a novel is never one singular idea. It’s a myriad of thoughts and…

Kathy George on retellings and giving female characters the voice they were denied

If you’re a voracious reader like me, you can name at least one minor character…

The Librarians Review

As has become unignorably apparent with the recent Jimmy Kimmel situation, America is currently mired…

Amy McCaw on the allure of true crime

True crime is one of those trends that I became aware of when the Serial…

Book Review: Fiend by Alma Katsu

The Berishas run a behemoth of an import-export company, a company whose enemies have an…