Books & Poetry
The horror stories in this new Australian YA collection range from ‘straight-up terrifying rollercoaster rides’ to those rooted in society’s deepest fears. The story extracted here takes readers on a mercy-dash road trip that goes chillingly awry.
Books & Poetry
Adelaide writer Poppy Nwosu’s new young-adult rom-com novel follows a teenager who embarks on a road trip in the South Australian coastal desert region that she hopes will solve all her problems. Except, of course, it doesn’t.
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Adelaide-born writer Emma Ashmere explores illusion, deception and acts of quiet rebellion in her new book of short stories, including one in which two sisters await a predicted tidal wave after SA Premier Don Dunstan decriminalises homosexuality.
Adelaide author Katherine Tamiko Arguile explores themes of family and grief in her new novel The Things She Owned, the story of a tangled mother-daughter relationship that unfolds over two generations and is steeped in Japanese culture.
Gina Inverarity’s dystopian vision of a drastically altered post-global future in her new young-adult novel Snow has been given added resonance by the COVID-19 crisis.
With the Southern Flinders Ranges as its backdrop, SA author Annette Marner’s new novel centres on an aspiring artist haunted by two tragic events from her childhood.
