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Tag: Fiction

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: 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: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

A contained and seething study of madness and familial obligation.

1960s, Fiction, Jewish writers, London, Man Booker prize, Novel, UK

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: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

A monumental, meandering, magnificent tale of truth, love, beauty.

Classics, Fiction, France, Novel

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

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Four young witches come together to fight fascism and patriarchy in Jane Rawson’s latest wonderful novel.
A white middle class New York family heads into the woods and the world ends in Rumaan Alam’s gleefully silly horror-comedy.
Bodies Of Light tells the story of Holly, a 40-something woman who lives in Vermont. When she is one day contacted by someone who thinks she might be someone else on Facebook, the novel cuts back into the past to explore Holly’s childhood in Melbourne - and why she has taken on several new identities during her life.
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