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Tag: Australian

Review: Desire by Jessie Cole

A delicate study of needs and desires.

Australian, Climate change, Environment, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: Water Music by Christine Balint

A delicate novella about the production of art.

Australian, Female writers, Fiction, Historical, Italy, Music, Novella, Venice

Review: Against Disappearance (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh and Adolfo Aranjuez)

A challenging, demanding and exciting collection of nonfiction.

Australian, Essays, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Writers of colour

Review: Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au

A fine and exquisite novella about our most intimate relationships.

Australian, China, Fiction, Hong Kong, Japan, Novella

Review: Losing Face by George Haddad

A comin-of-age that troubles long after the final sentence.

Arabic writing, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, queer, Western Sydney

Review: Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki

A stunning reimagining of the archives to reveal the people within them.

Australian, Indigenous writers, Poetry, Stella Prize, Western Australia

Review: Passionate Friends by Sylvia Martin

A warm and erudite biography of love between to women in the early 20th century.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, queer

Review: Australiana by Yumna Kassab

An all-too-human portrayal of the people who live on the land.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Rural

Review: An Exciting And Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rossa

Stories that illuminate the condition of the modern world.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, gay, LGBTIQ, queer, Short stories

Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson

A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.

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

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