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Tag: Contemporary

Review: Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam

A gleefully silly horror-comedy of the end of the world.

Apocalypse, Contemporary, Fiction, New York, US

Review: Bodies Of Light by Jennifer Down

A novel of surviving extraordinary trials.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr

A heady mix of mundane and heavenly, the sins of the flesh and the yearning of the spirit.

Arabic writing, Australian, Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction, Islam, Lebanon, LGBTIQ, Middle East, Novel, queer, Sydney, Turkey

Review: The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams

A novel about who defines the words that define us.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Novel

Review: The Promise by Damon Galgut

A story of an Afrikaner family whose fortunes mirror that of post-apartheid South Africa.

Contemporary, Fiction, Man Booker prize, Novel, South Africa

Review: The Death Of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

An insight into the silence and stigma of living queer in Nigeria.

Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Nigeria, Novel, queer

Review: The Dangers Of Smoking In Bed by Mariana Enriquez (translated by Megan McDowell)

There are plenty of scary creatures in this collection, but the real horror is what it says about the our world.

Argentina, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short stories

Review: This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

A head-spinning romp through time.

Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Time travel

Review: A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

A meticulous and measured novel of yearning.

Contemporary, Fiction, India, Man Booker prize, Novel, Sri Lanka

Review: Dark Rise by C. S. Pacat

Although slow to get going, Dark Rise ably sets the scene for CS Pacat’s YA fantasy trilogy.

Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, Young Adult

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I screamed, cackled and winced my way through this delicious collection of short stories.
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This tightly controlled small novel follows Christopher, a young man moving to Melbourne from country Victoria in the 1950s. In the city he quickly discovers the queer underground and meets Morgan, with whom he begins a domestic relationship.
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