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The best books I’ve read 2019

In 2019 I gravitated to stories of radical, political change (can you blame me?), and there seemed to be a surplus available.

Australian, Fiction, Novel, Racism, Review, Year in review

Review: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other is a book intensely concerned with the politics of identity and creativity, and how they have shifted over the 20th century.

Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Review

Review: The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman

The old Lie, according to WWI poet Wilfred Owen, is that there is glory to be found in dying for one’s country. Claire G. Coleman’s new novel of the same title is a systematic demolishing of that lie.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Review
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