“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.
Tag: Fiction
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.
Review: Shirl by Wayne Marshall
A whimsical, absurd and transgressive collection of stories about Australian masculinity.
Review: There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett
A sweet and simple story about growing up in parallel worlds, Melbourne and Prague in 1980.
Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
A hilarious novel about mortality and ageing.
Review: The Yield by Tara June Winch
The Yield offers a generous and quietly radical vision of a possible Australia.
