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Your guide to the best new shows and films to watch in Australia on all major streaming platforms this month.

Top Boy stars, Jasmine Jobson and Kadeem Robson, took to Instagram sharing a snap of themselves kissing, however their romance was not well received by some of the show's fans

The Apple Tree Yard author and staple of TV drama returns with another addictive thriller about a woman on the run

Louise Doughty’s novels include Platform Seven, recently filmed for a major new ITV series; Black Water, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; the bestseller Apple Tree Yard, which was adapted for BBC One; and Whatever You Love, nominated for the Costa Novel Award and the Women’s Prize for fiction. Her new novel A Bird in Winter will be published by Faber on August 31.

Want to get ahead of the game and read the book before watching the TV show? Here’s your reading list for 2023 and beyond.

Jess Loveland, Head of New Writing for BBC Drama Commissioning and BBC Writersroom, was recently joined by Writer, Louise Doughty and Executive Producer, Laurence Bowen of the latest BBC Drama, Crossfire in a special online webinar.

BARCELONA DREAMING by Rupert Thomson (Corsair £16.99, 224 pp) Set in the late 2000s, Thomson’s latest is a panacea for those pining for the Iberian peninsula, a triptych whose stories touch upon each other and shimmer with a delicately hallucinatory edge. In the first, an English expat embarks on a relationship with a beautiful Moroccan immigrant, occasioning the wrath of her racist neighbour and culminating in a fatal fracas. In the second, an alcoholic ex-jazz musician appears to strike up...