There is no escape on a quarantined cruise ship. Covid was  a life changing virus but when more than one passenger is murdered, will the cleaner be able to solve the mystery. He and everyone else on board seem to have something to hide in Jack Heath’s ‘Choppy Water’. 

Andrew Upton casts a lens on the state of the world by anthropomorphically looking at chickens in a coup in his novel, ‘Krank Fuss’.