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Tag: Australian

Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson

A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.

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

Review: Bodies Of Light by Jennifer Down

A novel of surviving extraordinary trials.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: Tilt by Kate Lilley

Poems that are all about the hidden things.

Australian, lesbian, LGBTIQ, Poetry, queer, Sydney

Review: Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr

A heady mix of mundane and heavenly, the sins of the flesh and the yearning of the spirit.

Arabic writing, Australian, Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction, Islam, Lebanon, LGBTIQ, Middle East, Novel, queer, Sydney, Turkey

Review: Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl

A gripping and exhausting, funny and despairing, and completely compelling account of living with grief.

Australian, Grief, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams

A novel about who defines the words that define us.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Novel

Five gay things I learned from The Boy In The Dress

A story of a murder in the 1940s becomes a much bigger, and queerer, tale of Australia’s history.

Australian, Crime, History, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer, True crime, World War II

Review: No Document by Anwen Crawford

An investigation into breaking down old ones and making new ones.

Activism, Australian, Memoir, Migration, Nonfiction, Protest, Refugees

Review: Permafrost by SJ Norman

A collection of haunted stories that unsettle like the melting permafrost of the title.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Germany, Horror, LGBTIQ, Non-binary, Poland, queer, Short stories, UK

Review: The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

A grim, aching study of women’s guilt and men’s rage.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction

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