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Tag: Memoir

Review: Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl

A gripping and exhausting, funny and despairing, and completely compelling account of living with grief.

Australian, Grief, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction

Five gay things I learned from The Boy In The Dress

A story of a murder in the 1940s becomes a much bigger, and queerer, tale of Australia’s history.

Australian, Crime, History, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer, True crime, World War II

Review: No Document by Anwen Crawford

An investigation into breaking down old ones and making new ones.

Activism, Australian, Memoir, Migration, Nonfiction, Protest, Refugees

Review: Good Indian Daughter by Ruhi Lee

Lee’s memoir is a complicated depiction of parents and parenting.

India, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Parenting

Review: Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy concisely summarises what makes her own writing so compelling.

British, Female writers, Memoir, Nonfiction, South Africa, UK

Review: Fourteen by Shannon Malloy

A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.

Australian, LGBTIQ, Memoir, Nonfiction, queer

Review: Eating With My Mouth Open by Sam van Zweden

Eating With My Mouth open is an investigation of food, body and memory, and all the things they can mean.

Australian, Female writers, Food, Food writing, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee

Eggshell Skull is a compelling and infuriating insight into the justice system, and the psychology of victimhood.

Australian, Criminal justice system, Memoir, Sexual assault

Review: Diving Into Glass by Caro Llewellyn

The story of a father and daughter, both touched by crippling illness.

Australian, Memoir, Stella Prize

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A white middle class New York family heads into the woods and the world ends in Rumaan Alam’s gleefully silly horror-comedy.
Bodies Of Light tells the story of Holly, a 40-something woman who lives in Vermont. When she is one day contacted by someone who thinks she might be someone else on Facebook, the novel cuts back into the past to explore Holly’s childhood in Melbourne - and why she has taken on several new identities during her life.
A tricksy collection of poetry from poet and academic Kate Lilley.
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