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Tag: Melbourne

Review: Woo Woo by Ella Baxter

What’s worse for an artist than a looming exhibition opening?

Art, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Our New Gods by Thomas Vowles

Queasy, deranged fun.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Novel, queer

Review: Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser

A post-structural post-colonial fairytale.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, 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

Five films from the Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2023

Queer films to add to your watchlist (or not!).

Film, Melbourne, MQFF, queer

Review: Waypoints by Adam Ouston

A soaring novel that conjures awe and wonder.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Little Plum by Laura McPhee-Browne

A beautiful and tender novel of becoming a mother.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel, Parenting

Review: Shirley by Ronnie Scott

Ronnie Scott renders pre-pandemic life scintillatingly strange.

Australian, Contemporary, COVID-19, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Marlo by Jay Carmichael

An evocative portrayal of queer life under oppression.

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

Review: Bodies Of Light by Jennifer Down

A novel of surviving extraordinary trials.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel, Stella Prize

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