Ali Smith’s Seasonal quartet is over. What a journey, and what a time for it to end.
Tag: Fiction
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.
Review: The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Christmas Eve, 1617, an extraordinary storm – almost supernatural – emerges from the Arctic Ocean and, “like a finger snap”, … More
Review: Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)
A brutal tale of murder, sex and witchcraft set in the steamy coastal plains of Mexico.
Review: The Adversary by Ronnie Scott
A story of gay frenemy-ship set in share-house inner Melbourne, uncovering uncomfortable truths about queer life and love.
Review: Bruny by Heather Rose
A fast-paced political thriller that hits perhaps little too close to home, and not necessarily for the right reasons.
Review: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Grapes Of Wrath remains a bracingly strange novel about ecological crisis eight decades after it was published.
The Library Is Open 