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Tag: Indigenous writers

Best books I’ve read 2024

Books to prevent enshittification.

Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Environment, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Novel, Poetry, Stella Prize, Year in review

Review: Always Will Be by Mikaela Saunders

Radical visions of the future.

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

Review: Madukka by Julie Janson

The crime is colonisation.

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

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Anthology, Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Female writers, Fiction, History, India, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Novel, Racism, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction, War, Year in review

Review: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko

Sorrow enlivened by rage and humour.

Australian, Colonialism, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous writers, Novel

Review: Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

A vast, “open-wound theatre” that peers deep into a continent’s soul.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous writers, Novel

Review: We Come With This Place by Debra Dank

A rich and beautiful history of family and place.

Australian, Historical, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: This All Come Back Now (edited by Mykaela Saunders)

A spectacular anthology of First Nations spec fic.

Anthology, Australian, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Speculative, speculative fiction

Review: Against Disappearance (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh and Adolfo Aranjuez)

A challenging, demanding and exciting collection of nonfiction.

Australian, Essays, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Nonfiction, Writers of colour

Review: Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki

A stunning reimagining of the archives to reveal the people within them.

Australian, Indigenous writers, Poetry, Stella Prize, Western Australia

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