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Tag: Stella Prize

Review: There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett

A sweet and simple story about growing up in parallel worlds, Melbourne and Prague in 1980.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill

See What You Made Me Do goes beyond headlines to uncover the horrifying scale of domestic abuse in Australia.

Australian, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

A hilarious novel about mortality and ageing.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: The Yield by Tara June Winch

The Yield offers a generous and quietly radical vision of a possible Australia.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Stella Prize

Review: Here Until August by Josephine Rowe

Here Until August is an intriguing collection of 10 short stories. They often feel haunted and uncanny.

Australian, Short stories, Stella Prize

Review: Diving Into Glass by Caro Llewellyn

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

Australian, Memoir, Stella Prize

Review: The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab

I can’t say I enjoyed this book very much – it’s full of domestic tragedy – but I was impressed by its intensely claustrophobic mood.

Australian, Contemporary, Short stories, Stella Prize

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The hype is real about this one, and well deserved I reckon!
A friend lent me Ted Hughes’ poetry Crow to read. I was expecting it to be mad and it delivered.
I’m equally drawn to and unsettled by the Pacific Ocean - so much deep water, so little land. The fact that islands as far apart as Hawai’i, New Zealand and Easter Island were settled a long time ago by Polynesian people seems a near-impossible feat of navigation and endurance.
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