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Tag: Fiction

Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (translated by Mara Feye Lethem)

A short, elemental novel pulsing with the rhythms of time.

Contemporary, Environment, Fiction, Historical, nature, Novel, Spain

Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo

A bracing dose of retro-strangeness.

1980s, America, Fiction, Novel, speculative fiction, US

Review: Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson

I screamed, I cackled, I winced my way through these delicious short stories.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Short stories

Review: Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy

Brings the excitement and adventure of living through the polar night to life.

Arctic, Australian, Fiction, Historical, Norway, Novel

Review: Marlo by Jay Carmichael

An evocative portrayal of queer life under oppression.

1950s, Australian, Fiction, Historical, Melbourne, Novel, queer

Best books I’ve read 2022

My favourite reads of the year.

Australian, Contemporary, Environment, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, queer

Review: Vā (edited by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young

A rich series of stories and poems from the Pacific Ocean.

Aotearoa, Contemporary, Fiction, Fiji, Hawai’i, New Zealand, Pacific, Poetry, Samoa, Short stories, Vanuatu

Review: Tomb Of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)

An epic novel that pushes at the boundedness of things.

Contemporary, Fiction, India, LGBTIQ, Man Booker International, Novel, queer, Transgender, Translation

Review: Water Music by Christine Balint

A delicate novella about the production of art.

Australian, Female writers, Fiction, Historical, Italy, Music, Novella, Venice

Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An extraordinarily bleak depiction of incarceration.

Classics, Fiction, Novel, Speculative, UK

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