A challenging, demanding and exciting collection of nonfiction.
Category: Reviews
Review: Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au
A fine and exquisite novella about our most intimate relationships.
Review: Wild Souls by Emma Marris
An incisive investigation into our relationship with wild animals.
Review: Losing Face by George Haddad
A comin-of-age that troubles long after the final sentence.
Review: Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki
A stunning reimagining of the archives to reveal the people within them.
Review: March by Geraldine Brooks
A novel that fills in a literary absence – and opens others.
Review: The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh
A powerful retelling of the last 500 years of history – and where we go next.
Review: Passionate Friends by Sylvia Martin
A warm and erudite biography of love between to women in the early 20th century.
Review: Australiana by Yumna Kassab
An all-too-human portrayal of the people who live on the land.
Review: The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai
A heaving, seething, raging novel full of life’s absurdities.
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