Charlotte McConaghy on The Wild Dark Shore

A small family lives on a remote island, the father a caretaker for the world's seeds. Then in the rising seas, a woman is washed up to shore. Charlotte McConaghy's Wild Dark Shore (penguin.com.au/books/wild-dark-shore-978176162…) is a mystery, a story of love, and a warning. Melbourne-based writer Sean Wilson offers an empathetic glimpse into the fractured mind of an elderly woman with dementia in his novella, You Must Remember This (affirmpress.com.au/author/62104). And Chris Flynn, in his latest speculative fiction Orpheus Nine (hachette.com.au/chris-flynn/orpheus-nine) begins at a regional junior soccer game where something very weird is happening, and the world is changed forever.