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Review: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Grapes Of Wrath remains a bracingly strange novel about ecological crisis eight decades after it was published.

Classics, Fiction, Nobel Laureate, Novel

Review: Shirl by Wayne Marshall

A whimsical, absurd and transgressive collection of stories about Australian masculinity.

Australian, Fiction, Short stories

Review: There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett

A sweet and simple story about growing up in parallel worlds, Melbourne and Prague in 1980.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill

See What You Made Me Do goes beyond headlines to uncover the horrifying scale of domestic abuse in Australia.

Australian, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

A hilarious novel about mortality and ageing.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: The Yield by Tara June Winch

The Yield offers a generous and quietly radical vision of a possible Australia.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Stella Prize

Review: Diving Into Glass by Caro Llewellyn

The story of a father and daughter, both touched by crippling illness.

Australian, Memoir, Stella Prize

Review: The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

At the beating heart of this time-bending novel is love – platonic, romantic, parental – and its various betrayals.

Fiction

Review: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett is sharpest when dissecting and delighting in human irrationality.

Fantasy, Fiction

Review: Runaway by Alice Munro

Alice Munro is often said to be the modern master of short stories. I can see why.

Fiction, Short stories

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