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Tag: Contemporary

Review: Mine by Adam Ouston

What isn’t there.

Australian, Contemporary, Environment, Fiction, Novel, Tasmania

Review: Worry Doll by Laura McPhee-Browne

The warped mirror of obsession.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, New Zealand, Novel, queer

Review: Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro

Get swept up in a typhoon maelstrom.

Australian, China, Colonialism, Contemporary, Family history, Fiction, Hong Kong, Novel, World War II

Review: The Endling by Keely Jobe

The terror and wonder of transformation.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Environment, Fiction, Novel

Review: No God But Us by Bobuq Sayed

Queering the border.

Contemporary, Fiction, Islam, LGBTIQ, Migration, Novel, Turkey

Review: Eros by Zoe Terakes

Freedom through transformation.

Ancient Greece, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Greece, LGBTIQ, Mythology, queer, Short stories

Review: Bird Deity by John Morrissey

Visions strange and disturbing.

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

Review: Firelight by John Morrissey

Lingering unease.

Australian, Contemporary, Indigenous writers, Short stories, Spec-fic, Speculative

Review: Sublimate by J. M. Tolcher

Sex and creation.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, gay, LGBTIQ, Novel

Review: Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray

Friends-to-lovers with a twist.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

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