April 1941, Belfast has escaped the worst of war, but it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished. Two sisters, four nights, one city, following the lives of sisters Emma and Audrey – one engaged to be married, the other in a secret relationship…

Twenty-two-year-old Albanian, Arsim, is newly married and cautious trying to keep his head down and finish his studies in an atmosphere of creeping threat. Set in Pristina in 1995, with some sections taking place in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars, follows a love affair between Arsim a married Albanian who want to be a…

Sri-Lankan-born Michelle de Krester’s seventh novel, Scary Monsters, just as migration has upended her characters’ lives. Lyle works for a sinister government department in near-future Australia. An Asian migrant, he fears repatriation and embraces “Australian values”. Scary Monster is a two-headed creature with two stories and front covers, tells a realist tale of the early…

  Ornithologist and behaviour ecologist, Antone Martinho-Truswell, proves human resemblance to birds although neither we humans are not like other mammals nor fly or have feathers and lay eggs, and not descended from dinosaurs. Our defining human traits, our longevity, intelligence, monogamy and childrearing and learning and language are far more similar to birds than…