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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: Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs

Fathoms is a book of philosophy and science that might shock us out of our lethargy towards nature.

Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Bruny by Heather Rose

A fast-paced political thriller that hits perhaps little too close to home, and not necessarily for the right reasons.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel

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: The Plague by Albert Camus

The Plague is understandably back on best-seller lists: the parallels with our current situation are striking.

Classics, COVID-19, Nobel Laureate

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: Here Until August by Josephine Rowe

Here Until August is an intriguing collection of 10 short stories. They often feel haunted and uncanny.

Australian, Short stories, Stella Prize

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