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Tag: Speculative

Review: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Narnia, Philip Pulman’s multiverse, David Mitchell’s “metanovel”, Hogwarts … English writing is full of people disappearing through portals into other … More

British, Fiction, Novel, Speculative

Review: A Couple Of Things Before The End by Sean O’Beirne

These stories are about traditional Aussie men, all at sea in their emotions.

Australian, Climate change, Contemporary, Short stories, Spec-fic, Speculative

Review: The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay

The Animals In That Country is premised on the idea that if we could suddenly understand what are animals are saying, it would drive us insane.

Animals, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Spec-fic, Speculative

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I’ve been enjoying reading the two Pulitzer-winning plays of Tennessee Williams.
You‘ve probably seen the memes: A historian contemplates two women who lived together their entire lives and never married men. Friends? the historian wonders.
The second of Yumna Kassab’s books is much like the first, a novel in pieces. Set in and around Tamworth, NSW, it is a deeply human portrait of communities dealing with the challenges of rural life: isolation, tribalism, suicide and above all drought.
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