Reviews

Guilty Pigs Review

By Chloe Britton Written by Professors Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans from the law school of the University of Melbourne, Guilty Pigs is a...

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The Grass Hotel Review

By Matthew Goodall Craig Sherborne is a poet, playwright, and novelist. His debut memoir Hoi Polloi was shortlisted for both the Queensland...

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Book Review—What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He & She by Dennis Baron

by Ferris Knight   ‘The fact that gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns are invented over and over again, often by people completely...

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Book Review—Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon

by Nicolas Brasch Eugen Bacon is a critical voice in Australian literature, one that probes and prods, questions and enlightens. She is an...

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Book Review: Elizabeth, Elizabeth by Sue Williams

by Angela Wauchop   ‘Behind the ragged grey people and their own shabby infantry officers— … the houses are little more than...

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Book Review: The Road to Woop Woop and other stories by Eugen Bacon

by Angela Wauchop   ‘But there is a lot Keledi does not know. You haven’t told her about the big plane that took Baba up in the...

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Book Review: Black Moon – Graphic Speculative Flash Fiction by Eugen Bacon. Illustrated by Elena Betti

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop   ‘Was it the malevolence of bitch girls and the opulence ranking of their homes? The spite of...

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Book Review: Ein Stein by Joe Reich

by Vincent Kakkos    Ein Stein surprised the absolute shit out of me. As someone who hadn’t read a novel to completion in almost a...

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Book Review: The Freedom Circus by Sue Smethurst

Reviewed by Michelle Freckleton Sue Smethurst is an award-winning writer/ journalist, who has worked in the media industry for over twenty...

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Book Review: No Small Shame by Christine Bell

Review by Angela Wauchop “Even as Mary said it, guilt scalded her insides knowing that Maw had nearly died of the bleeding after the last...

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Book Review: A Roman Death by Joan O’Hagan

Review by Angela Wauchop “… ‘Our daughters are still children when they marry. Have you ever considered that?’ Fufidius gaped...

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Gulliver’s Wife by Lauren Chater

Reviewed by Dr Wendy J. Dunn.   “… She went to bed and dreamed she was lying in a garden.  It was night time, the moon a glowing...

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Book Review: Kate Murdoch’s The Orange Grove

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “‘That is not true. I care about you, Céline. I care about the fact that my wife prostitutes herself for...

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Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s My Name is Revenge

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “… Vrezh stomped the blood-red flags with enthusiasm … The older boys poured kerosene on the heap...

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Review of Columbine’s Tale by Rachel Nightingale

 by Savannah White “…Swayed by her passion, the Creator granted her wish. The star was born in human form and lived a human life. All...

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Book Review of Carol Lefevre’s The Happiness Glass

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “For years she had imagined these plants belonged to the animal kingdom: hippopotamus; rhinoceros; agapanthus....

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Book Review of Stephanie Parkyn’s Into the World

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “The murky water stretched out between her and the shore, the gap becoming further than she could leap. The...

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A Review of Kristina Olsson’s Shell

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop. “But tonight the air was precarious. All sandstone shadow, smudgy. She thought that time was like this too, a...

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Book Review of Helen Juke’s A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “It felt like slipping through a hidden side-door, stepping slightly outside the flow of things and into a...

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Book review: The Lace Weaver

Reviewed by Wendy J. Dunn Each lace shawl begins and ends the same way – with a circle. Everything is connected with a thread as fine...

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Book Review: The Tides Between by Elizabeth Jane Corbett

Review by Jayme Constandino At the crux of it, The Tides Between is a story about self discovery. The narrative follows young girl Bridie...

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Book review: The Heart is a Burial Ground by Tamara Colchester

Reviewed by Skye Jenner. This book isn’t the kind that I normally read. That’s not to say that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy it. But it...

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A Book Review of Hoa Pham’s ‘Lady of the Realm’

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “… and I was lifted reluctantly into the boat as it ploughed into the sea. On the beach the men I knew from...

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Book Review: Aesop the Fox by Suniti Namjoshi

Review by Madeleine Reid Aesop the Fox is Suniti Namjoshi’s first novel in six years, and those familiar with her fiction works will be...

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Book review: The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, by Shokoofeh Azar

Reviewed by Tamara Lowe   The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, written by Shokoofeh Azar who now calls Australia home,...

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Review of Harlequins Riddle by Rachel Nightingale

Review by Joe Bosa “There is a moment, just before the dreamer stirs, when the mysteries of the world offer up their meanings. There is...

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Review of Jack of Spades by Sophie Masson

Review by Jessica Forth It is not often that a book opens is narrative with the call to action on it’s first page. It is also unusual...

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‘Falling Pomegranate Seeds’ by Wendy J. Dunn

Review by Sarah Giles “All of us must walk our own roads, but ‘tis wrong to prevent women from walking to many roads just because...

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‘The History of England. Volume IV: Revolution’ by Peter Ackroyd

Reviewed by Professor Josie Arnold   I read this as a biography of the William, Anne and Hanoverian years in England that saw the...

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‘Call to Juno’ by Elisabeth Storrs

Review by Tina Tsironis Throw a number of interconnected characters together, add a dash of mental complexity to each, sprinkle with a...

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