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Tag: Fiction

Review: Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor

The lesbian answer to Ned Kelly.

1930s, Australian, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, Sydney

Review: Body Friend by Katherine Brabon

A meticulous study of pain.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: North And South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

All is flux.

19th Century, Classics, England, Fiction

Review: Always Will Be by Mikaela Saunders

Radical visions of the future.

Australian, Clim change, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Short stories, Speculative

Review: The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The big climate book.

Climate change, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

The limits and possibilities of empathy.

Contemporary, Fiction, Ireland, Novel

Review: God Forgets About The Poor by Peter Polites

“People will love my suffering”.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Greece, Migrant, Novel

Review: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Survival in authoritarian Ireland.

Contemporary, Fiction, Ireland, Novel, Speculative, War

Review: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)

Lithe, spectral stories.

Colonialism, Fiction, Indonesia, LGBTIQ, Short stories, Translation

Review: Madukka by Julie Janson

The crime is colonisation.

Australian, Contemporary, Crime, Environment, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Novel

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