Tessa Hadley, born in Bristol in 1956, is a British author most famous for her novels, her short stories, and her non-fiction writing. The main concerns of her writing are usually human relationships, domestic lifestyles, and family dynamics, and her writing is usually realistic rather than fantastical.
David Malouf’s short story collection Every Move You Make compels us to examine the intersections between identity, memory, place, and belonging; in this collection, we confront the tensions between the self and other, and what kinds of transformations may emerge from encounters between the two.
The Memory Police offers a poetic yet poignant commentary on the effects of memory loss, both on individuals and society as a whole. As the citizens of the unnamed island gradually fall victim to the oppression enforced by the titular militia, acclaimed Japanese author Yoko Ogawa’s Orwellian novel interrogates the dangers of ideological conditioning and the existential threats it poses to humanity.