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Review: Passionate Friends by Sylvia Martin

A warm and erudite biography of love between to women in the early 20th century.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, queer

Review: Australiana by Yumna Kassab

An all-too-human portrayal of the people who live on the land.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Rural

Review: The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai

A heaving, seething, raging novel full of life’s absurdities.

Classics, Fiction, India, Novel

Review: A Room With A View by E. M. Forster

A classic novel of travel and Romance.

Classics, England, Italy, Novel

Review: An Exciting And Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rossa

Stories that illuminate the condition of the modern world.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, gay, LGBTIQ, queer, Short stories

Review: Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

A sympathetic and warts-and-all depiction of love, loss and family.

Canada, Fiction, Graphic novel, LGBTIQ, Transgender

Review: The Story Of A New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)

This second instalment of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet deepens and complicates the themes of the first.

Classics, Fiction, Italy, Novel

Review: Companion Piece by Ali Smith

A fittingly grim and anxious search for meaning in our anxious and grim times.

Ali Smith, Contemporary, COVID-19, Fiction, Novel, UK

Review: Take Care by Eunice Andrada

Poetry that investigates ‘taking’ in all its forms.

Colonialism, Environment, Patriarchy, Philippines, Poetry, Sexual assault

Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson

A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.

Australian, Contemporary, Fascism, Female writers, Feminism, Fiction, Historical, Novel, Spec-fic, Witches

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