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Tag: Australian

Review: Madukka by Julie Janson

The crime is colonisation.

Australian, Contemporary, Crime, Environment, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Novel

Review: The Modern by Anna Kate Blair

Love, sex, marriage, work and New York deconstructed.

Art, Australian, Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, New York, Novel, queer

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Anthology, Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Female writers, Fiction, History, India, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Novel, Racism, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction, War, Year in review

Review: Audition by Pip Adam

Ishiguro meets Le Guin.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko

Sorrow enlivened by rage and humour.

Australian, Colonialism, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous writers, Novel

Review: The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt

Poetry as still life.

Australian, Poetry, Stella Prize

Review: Chai Time At Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

A sharp retort to Australia’s arbitrary rules about who belongs and how.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Miles Franklin Award, Novel, Sri Lanka

Review: Here Be Leviathans by Chris Flynn

Amusing, playful and inventive short stories.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction

Review: The Lovers by Yumna Kassab

Is love a neutral force, or inherently exploitative?

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Lebanon, Middle East, Novel

Review: Waypoints by Adam Ouston

A soaring novel that conjures awe and wonder.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Melbourne, Novel

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