Prize Fighter (Future D Fidel, Hachette)
Date: Thursday, 31 May 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Isa Alaki is 10 years old, a budding engineer with a loving family in the Congolese city of Bukavu, when a rebel militia descends on his city, slaughtering his family and... Read more
Trick of the Light (Laura Elvery, UQP)
Date: Thursday, 25 January 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
The 24 stories in Brisbane writer Laura Elvery’s debut collection Trick of the Light span countries and centuries, ranging stylistically from stark realism to light speculative fiction. Some are vignettes,... Read more
Bird Country (Claire Aman, Text)
Date: Thursday, 27 July 2017Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Claire Aman has regularly referred to Grafton, her northern New South Wales hometown, as ‘an inspiring town’. This inspiration is realised in Bird Country, a suite of quietly beautiful short... Read more
Rubik (Elizabeth Tan, Brio)
Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2017Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
In Elizabeth Tan’s debut novel-in-stories, the untimely death of young Perth woman Elena Rubik tears a hole in the fabric of reality, and the reader is thrown into a sprawling... Read more
From the Wreck (Jane Rawson, Transit Lounge)
Date: Thursday, 2 February 2017Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Featured book review
In 1859, the steamship Admella sunk off the coast of South Australia. Among the few lucky survivors was sailor George Hills and a mysterious woman who vanished upon her rescue.... Read more
From the Outer: Footy Like You’ve Never Heard It (ed by Alicia Sometimes & Nicole Hayes, Black Inc.)
Date: Wednesday, 24 February 2016Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
For a pastime beloved by so many Australians, the loudest voices in the world of AFL are invariably straight, white and male. From the Outer provides a valuable contribution to... Read more