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Tag: Novel
Review: Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy
Brings the excitement and adventure of living through the polar night to life.
Review: Marlo by Jay Carmichael
An evocative portrayal of queer life under oppression.
Best books I’ve read 2022
My favourite reads of the year.
Review: Tomb Of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
An epic novel that pushes at the boundedness of things.
Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
An extraordinarily bleak depiction of incarceration.
Review: The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Michael Glenny)
A devilish romp through Soviet literary society.
Review: Losing Face by George Haddad
A comin-of-age that troubles long after the final sentence.
Review: March by Geraldine Brooks
A novel that fills in a literary absence – and opens others.
Review: Australiana by Yumna Kassab
An all-too-human portrayal of the people who live on the land.
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