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Tag: Fiction
Review: Poly by Paul Dalgarno
Poly is a riot of a novel, an all out brawl.
Review: Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne
Cherry Beach is a painful portrait of millennial queer life, and agonising desire.
Review: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Cleanness is a book of lofty ideas, grounded in the flesh.
Review: Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
What would happen if a married woman behaved like a man? Fleishman Is In Trouble provides the answer.
Review: Summer by Ali Smith
Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet is over. What a journey, and what a time for it to end.
Review: The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay
The Animals In That Country is premised on the idea that if we could suddenly understand what are animals are saying, it would drive us insane.
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.
Review: Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A story of love and war in Nigeria in the 1960s, Half Of A Yellow Sun reaches outwards through history.
Review: After Australia (edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad)
“Australia is just a glitch,” writes Wiradjuri writer Hannah Donnelly. After Australia is a collection of speculative fiction that explores what Australia is, and could be.
