A collection of haunted stories that unsettle like the melting permafrost of the title.
Tag: Australian
Review: The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
A grim, aching study of women’s guilt and men’s rage.
Review: The Other Half Of You by Michael Mohammad Ahmad
A bracing read about modern masculinity.
Review: Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos
A fable of the fickle nature of fortune.
Review: Fourteen by Shannon Malloy
A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.
Review: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.
Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell
A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.
Review: Born Into This by Adam Thompson
Born Into This is an effective demand to be heard.
Review: Witness by Louise Milligan
A blistering indictment of the treatment of victims of sex crimes by the legal system.
Review: The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
The Rain Heron is a fable about environmental exploitation.
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