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Tag: Female writers

Review: big beautiful female theory by Eloise Grills

A gorgeous and liberatory collection of illustrated essays and memoir.

Essays, Female writers, Feminism, Illustrated, Memoir, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

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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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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