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Tag: Australian

Review: Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos

A fable of the fickle nature of fortune.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Greece, Greek-Australian, Novel, Sydney

Review: Fourteen by Shannon Malloy

A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer

Review: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen

A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.

Australian, Indigenous writers, Poetry

Review: Flames Of Extinction by John Pickrell

A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.

Australian, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: Born Into This by Adam Thompson

Born Into This is an effective demand to be heard.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Short stories, Tasmania

Review: Witness by Louise Milligan

A blistering indictment of the treatment of victims of sex crimes by the legal system.

Australian, Journalism, Legal System, Nonfiction, Sexual assault, Stella Prize

Review: The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott

The Rain Heron is a fable about environmental exploitation.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Environment, Fantasy, Fiction, Spec-fic, Tasmania

Review: Eating With My Mouth Open by Sam van Zweden

Eating With My Mouth open is an investigation of food, body and memory, and all the things they can mean.

Australian, Female writers, Food, Food writing, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: Revenge by S. L. Lim

A furious and thrilling novel about the “lives you might have had.”

Australian, Contemporary, Female writers, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Malaysia, Novel, queer, Stella Prize

Review: Collisions (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein and Hassan Abul)

Collisions aims to “shift the Australian imaginary”.

Anthology, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Short stories, Writers of colour

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