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Tag: Contemporary

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: 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: 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: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

An accomplished novel that forensically examines misogyny in all its forms.

Contemporary, Female writers, Fiction, Novel, Scotland

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

Review: Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green

A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.

Australian, Colonialism, Contemporary, Indigenous writers, Poetry

Review: Song Of The Crocodile by Nardi Simpson

Another unpredictable and unsettling novel from the latest flourishing of Aboriginal writing.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Novel, Yuwaalaraay

Review: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

A tale of despair, illness and poverty that captures the swooping highs and devastating lows of life.

Contemporary, gay, Glasgow, Man Booker prize, Novel, queer, Scotland

The best books I’ve read 2020

The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.

Argentina, Australian, Classics, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Nonfiction, Novel, Year in review

Review: A Couple Of Things Before The End by Sean O’Beirne

These stories are about traditional Aussie men, all at sea in their emotions.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Short stories, Spec-fic, Speculative

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