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Tag: Fiction

Review: The Adventures Of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre)

Lesbians! Cowboys! Argentina!

Argentina, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous Americans, LGBTIQ, Man Booker International, Novel, queer, Translation

Review: The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)

This is a novel that does what it says: a truly discomforting tale of death and grief set in a grim twilight world.

Contemporary, Fiction, Man Booker International, Netherlands, Novel, Translation

Review: A Treacherous Country by K. M. Kruimink

A strange and misty novel set in colonial Van Diemen’s Land.

Australian, Fiction, Historical, Novel, Tasmania

Review: Real Life by Brandon Taylor

An aching novel of a young man trying to find a place in the world.

America, Fiction, gay, Man Booker prize, Novel, US

Review: Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe

Stone Sky Gold Mountain offers a rearranging of Australian history, reminding us other settlers were also here in the early days.

Australian, China, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical

Review: Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

A dreamy, mirage-like novel where things change shape before your eyes.

1920s, British, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel

Review: Poly by Paul Dalgarno

Poly is a riot of a novel, an all out brawl.

Australian, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel, polyamory

Review: Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne

Cherry Beach is a painful portrait of millennial queer life, and agonising desire.

Canada, Contemporary, Fiction, lesbian, Melbourne, Millennial, queer

Review: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

Cleanness is a book of lofty ideas, grounded in the flesh.

Bulgaria, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

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.

Fiction, Marriage, New York, Novel, US

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