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3 November 2023

 

Walkley Book Award shortlist announced

The shortlist for the Walkley Book Award has been announced. The shortlisted works are: Ghosts of the Orphanage (Christine Kenneally, Hachette Australia) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the technology of... Read more
 
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Britney memoir debuts in top spot x

Britney Spears’ memoir The Woman in Me, published on 24 October, was the bestselling book in Australia for the week ending 28 October. Spears’ memoir also debuted at the top... Read more
 
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Books in the media this weekend, 4–5 November x

A round-up of the books being reviewed and mentioned in key media this coming weekend. National The Saturday Paper The In-Between (Christos Tsiolkas, A&U) Faking It (Toby Walsh, La Trobe)... Read more
 
 

The Conversion
Amanda Lohrey, Text, November 2023, reviewed by Chloë Cooper
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When Zoe’s husband, Nick, dies unexpectedly, she finds herself adrift. Recently retired and unable to afford to continue living in the city, she purchases an old and rundown church in... Read more

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Days of Innocence and Wonder
Lucy Treloar, Picador, November 2023, reviewed by Sonia Nair
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Lucy Treloar’s third novel centres on a woman named Till, whose life was cleaved in two when her childhood friend E was kidnapped right before her eyes 18 years ago—‘nothing... Read more

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The Drowning
Bryan Brown, A&U, November 2023, reviewed by Kate Frawley
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The accidental drowning death of a local Gumbaynggirr boy—David, from whose viewpoint the book opens—brings a shadow of sadness over a small NSW coastal town. Then a backpacker doesn’t turn up... Read more

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The In-Between
Christos Tsiolkas, A&U, November 2023, reviewed by Anne Barneston
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Christos Tsiolkas’s The In-Between begins with Perry, a man past his youth, preparing to go on a date. He’s nervous about meeting Ivan, the stranger he will have dinner with,... Read more

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Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's songs reimagined
ed by Kirsten Krauth, Fremantle, November 2023, reviewed by Megan Koch
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Short story anthology Into Your Arms draws on what editor Kirsten Krauth calls the ‘deep, rich and often dark vein’ of Nick Cave’s musical oeuvre. Twenty-one Australian writers (several of... Read more

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Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year
Joanna Nell, Hachette, November 2023, reviewed by Michelle Atkins
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‘Books with heart and humour,’ reads the tagline of author Joanna Nell’s website, and her latest book, Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year, is no exception. After the bestselling The... Read more

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The Paris Cooking School
Sophie Beaumont, Ultimo, November 2023, reviewed by Emily Westmoreland
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Two middle-class women at a crossroads in life travel to Paris to learn to cook ‘the French Way’ at Sylvie Morel’s Paris Cooking School. Gabi has lost her muse, Kate... Read more

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Strangely Enough
ed by Gillian Hagenus, MidnightSun, November 2023, reviewed by Stefen Brazulaitis
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Strangely Enough is a slim collection of very short fiction that leans towards the peculiar and slightly unsettling. It’s also very much on point with the current zeitgeist. Short, twisty... Read more

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A Woman of Courage
Tania Blanchard, HarperCollins, November 2023, reviewed by Anna Loder
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Set in the late 1800s in Ebberfield, northern England, Tania Blanchard’s A Woman of Courage is an engrossing historical fiction work about the suffragette movement. Recent teaching graduate Hannah Todd dreams... Read more

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Women & Children
Tony Birch, UQP, November 2023, reviewed by Danielle Bagnato
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Tony Birch’s latest novel, Women & Children, is a thoughtful and profound story of a working-class family doing their best to resist a system that’s geared against them. In 1965... Read more

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