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A blog about books and writing, through rainbow-tinted glasses. Every book gets a gay rating.

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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: Water Music by Christine Balint

A delicate novella about the production of art.

Australian, Female writers, Fiction, Historical, Italy, Music, Novella, Venice

Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An extraordinarily bleak depiction of incarceration.

Classics, Fiction, Novel, Speculative, UK

Review: The Rise And Reign Of The Mammals by Steve Brusatte

A lively history of our mammal kin.

Dinosaurs, Evolution, Mammals, Nonfiction, Palaeontology, science

Review: The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Michael Glenny)

A devilish romp through Soviet literary society.

Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel, Russia, Satire

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: Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au

A fine and exquisite novella about our most intimate relationships.

Australian, China, Fiction, Hong Kong, Japan, Novella

Review: Wild Souls by Emma Marris

An incisive investigation into our relationship with wild animals.

Animals, Conservation, Nonfiction, science

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

Review: Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki

A stunning reimagining of the archives to reveal the people within them.

Australian, Indigenous writers, Poetry, Stella Prize, Western Australia

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