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Review: Shirley by Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott renders pre-pandemic life scintillatingly strange.

Australian, Contemporary, COVID-19, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones

Taught and supple as leather, menacing and poignant.

British, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

Review: The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

A sweeping, grandiose tale of love and war.

Contemporary, Cyprus, Fiction, Novel, Romance, Turkey, UK, War

Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (translated by Mara Feye Lethem)

A short, elemental novel pulsing with the rhythms of time.

Contemporary, Environment, Fiction, Historical, nature, Novel, Spain

Review: Marlo by Jay Carmichael

An evocative portrayal of queer life under oppression.

1950s, Australian, Fiction, Historical, Melbourne, Novel, queer

Review: Modern Nature by Derek Jarman

Sex, death, life, art — this diary about a garden has it all.

Diary, HIV/AIDS, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, UK

Review: Tomb Of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)

An epic novel that pushes at the boundedness of things.

Contemporary, Fiction, India, LGBTIQ, Man Booker International, Novel, queer, Transgender, Translation

Review: Against Disappearance (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh and Adolfo Aranjuez)

A challenging, demanding and exciting collection of nonfiction.

Australian, Essays, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Writers of colour

Review: Losing Face by George Haddad

A comin-of-age that troubles long after the final sentence.

Arabic writing, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, queer, Western Sydney

Sex and death with Tennessee Williams

In his two Pulitzer-winning plays Tennessee Williams puts the light on the shadowy corners of desire.

America, Classics, gay, LGBTIQ, Play, Pulitzer, USA

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This collection of essays explores the uncertainty of living in a time where our impact on the environment has become entangled in all our experiences of nature.
Ronnie Scott’s first novel, The Adversary, is one of my favourite reads of the past couple of years. His new book, Shirley, cements him as one of my favourite writers.
18-year-old Colin, seeking adventure and escape from his quaint village life in 1970s Surrey, stumbles on his birthday over the ‘tasty’ older biker Ray in the woodlands of Box Hill in this taught, menacing and poignant novel.
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