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Tag: Female writers

Review: Water Music by Christine Balint

A delicate novella about the production of art.

Australian, Female writers, Fiction, Historical, Italy, Music, Novella, Venice

Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson

A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.

Australian, Contemporary, Fascism, Female writers, Feminism, Fiction, Historical, Novel, Spec-fic, Witches

Review: Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy concisely summarises what makes her own writing so compelling.

British, Female writers, Memoir, Nonfiction, South Africa, UK

Review: Light by Eva Figes

A masterful, stroll-around-a-garden novella.

Art, British, Classics, Female writers, Fiction, France, Novella, Painting

Review: Eating With My Mouth Open by Sam van Zweden

Eating With My Mouth open is an investigation of food, body and memory, and all the things they can mean.

Australian, Female writers, Food, Food writing, Memoir, Nonfiction

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

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I screamed, cackled and winced my way through this delicious collection of short stories.
I’ve been loving the hot weather here in Melbourne. Maybe it’s the contrast, but it’s also proved to be perfect time to read this delightful novel set in one of the coldest places on earth.
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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