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Grady Hendrix: How to Sell a Haunted House (2022, Penguin Publishing Group)

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want …

This was great, but also awful. You know those books where something traumatic happens, but there's closure, so you figure you're near the end, but then you realise you still have a third of the book to go? Yeah that.

Grace Chan: Every Version of You (EBook, 2022, Affirm Press) No rating

In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time …

I quite enjoyed this in the end; despite my earlier comment about being parochially set in Melbourne. It's a little depressing, essentially being a tale of slow apocalypse, but weirdly uplifting as well.

Grace Chan: Every Version of You (EBook, 2022, Affirm Press) No rating

In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time …

This book is set in 2080s Melbourne and it's a little offputting how much it wants to hammer that home - "we moved from Cremorne to Southbank" and other such very particular namedrops of locations.