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Tag: Dinosaurs

Review: Mammoth by Chris Flynn

A mammoth and a tyrannosaurus skeleton find themselves in storage, setting the stage for a fascinating and ultimately moving romp through history.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Dinosaurs, Environment, Extinction, Fiction, Novel

Glittering ichthyosaurs in Heart of Darkness

My favourite imagery in all of literature comes from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

Classics, Dinosaurs, Joseph Conrad

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“It's just the lottery of circumstance, a game she lost before she was even born. Lay down your arms, woman: this isn't a battle, it's a rout. And yet. And yet.”
Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel Prize for his “hallucinatory realism”. That’s fully on display in this book about garlic farmers in 1980s China.
My fourth read from the #2021stellaprize shortlist is Evie Wyld’s forensic examination of misogyny in all its forms.
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