This week’s reviews range from a stunning work from a new indie Australian publisher to speculative YA, a history of the Spartans, and an optimistic call to arms for how to make Australia better.

It’s the theme park equivalent of finding out your strict librarian moonlights as a rock climber – unexpectedly delightful and impossible to categorize. Unlike the adrenaline factories that dominate ...

Davis represents mountain living for people who’ve figured out that busy doesn’t always mean better. Marlinton sits in a valley where time seems to pool like water in a quiet eddy. This town has ...