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Tag: Australian

Review: We Come With This Place by Debra Dank

A rich and beautiful history of family and place.

Australian, Historical, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: This All Come Back Now (edited by Mykaela Saunders)

A spectacular anthology of First Nations spec fic.

Anthology, Australian, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Speculative, speculative fiction

Review: A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill

A sprightly if sanitised mystery set during one of Australia’s flirtations with fascism.

Australian, Crime, Fiction, Historical, Novel

Review: Little Plum by Laura McPhee-Browne

A beautiful and tender novel of becoming a mother.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel, Parenting

Review: Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar

An intimate, clear-sighted epic of Australian colonialism.

Australian, Colonialism, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous history, Novel

Review: Signs And Wonders by Delia Falconer

Essays that evoke the feeling of living through environmental crisis.

Australian, Climate change, Essays, Extinction, nature writing, Nonfiction

Review: Shirley by Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott renders pre-pandemic life scintillatingly strange.

Australian, Contemporary, COVID-19, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson

I screamed, I cackled, I winced my way through these delicious short stories.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Short stories

Review: Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy

Brings the excitement and adventure of living through the polar night to life.

Arctic, Australian, Fiction, Historical, Norway, Novel

Review: Marlo by Jay Carmichael

An evocative portrayal of queer life under oppression.

1950s, Australian, Fiction, Historical, Melbourne, Novel, queer

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