Issue Seven Reviews

Review of Anne Casey’s ‘out of emptied cups’.

A kookaburra laughing carries me home through the clearing where the wattles are bursting their golden crowns dancing against a brooding...

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Book Review of Leah Kaminsky’s The Hollow Bones.

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “… Herta’s eyes were open to an army of haters spinning their sticky threads among the populace. Every...

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If When

Reviewed by Brittney Alexander. “He had always been fond of knives. Each hilt sat warm and comfortable in the palm of his hand, as though...

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Book Review of GS Johnston’s Sweet Bitter Cane

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “The war had left them idle. Each bomb and bullet and bayonet had torn the fabric of the village to ribbons,...

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The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World.

Reviewed by Brittney Alexander.   Gareth Russell’s book, The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World, addresses the sinking of the...

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Recipes for the Disaster

Reviewed by Michael Aiken Gareth Jenkins’ Recipes for the Disaster (Five Islands 2019) reads like a series of rituals or incantations,...

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‘The Bridge’ by Enza Gandolfo

Review by Caitlin Bowen Enza Gandolfo is an Australian writer whose latest novel, ‘The Bridge’ delves deep into the circumstances that...

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Book Review of Anne Connor’s Two Generations

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop “This was not the exultation of war. This was gratitude. This was sadness for the waste of life. … This...

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Review of The Short Story of You and I
by Richard James Allen.

Review by Wendy J. Dunn ACTUALLY, LOVE   is the only thing that does last, beyond the karmic astral space junk drifting like detritus...

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Step Up, Mrs Dugdale by Lynne Leonhardt.

Review by Brittney Alexander “… the slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings. Women’s position is changing. What...

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Book Review of Clare Rhoden’s The Stars in the Night

Reviewed by Angela Wauchop   “You thought everything was laid up and settled, long ago, and there it would be, suddenly reaching out...

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Book review of Zealot: A Book About Cults by Jo Thornely.

By Thomas Van Essen.   Hachette, Non-Fiction, 292 pages  “People don’t join cults because they’re stupid or bad people. They...

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