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Tag: Dinosaurs

Review: The Rise And Reign Of The Mammals by Steve Brusatte

A lively history of our mammal kin.

Dinosaurs, Evolution, Mammals, Nonfiction, Palaeontology, science

Review: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday

A safari through time with an urgent message about the future.

Dinosaurs, Fossils, nature, nature writing, Nonfiction, Palaeontology, science

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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A new Alexis Wright book is something to anticipate feverishly and with a little trepidation. Her latest, vast novel is her most intimidating yet, a 700-page “open-wound theatre” about the town of Praiseworthy on the Gulf country of northern Australia.
I read this amazing book a little while ago, and it’s had a powerful impact on the way I look and listen to the world around me. It’s a beautiful history of family and country that richly evokes Debra Dank’s Gudanji land in the dust and gravel country of the south-western Gulf Of Carpentaria.
This retelling of E. M. Forster’s Maurice is a fast-paced, horny exercise in wish fulfilment, told from the perspective of Maurice’s lover Alec.
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