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Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil
Melina Marchetta, Viking, September 2016, reviewed by Fiona Hardy x

Outside Calais, a bomb tears apart a bus full of international teenage students. The uninjured include British ex-Chief Inspector Bish Ortley’s daughter Bee and 17-year-old... Read more
 

Fiction

 

5 Ways to be Famous Now
Maurilia Meehan, Transit Lounge, September 2016, reviewed by Jessica Slade x

 
 

Le Chateau
Sarah Ridout, Echo Publishing, September 2016, reviewed by Kate Frawley x

 
 

A Chinese Affair
Isabelle Li, Margaret River Press, July 2016, reviewed by Lindsay Wilkins x

 
 

The Easy Way Out
Steven Amsterdam, Hachette, September 2016, reviewed by Portia Lindsay x

 
 

The Historian's Daughter
Rashida Murphy, UWA Publishing, September 2016, reviewed by Sonia Nair x

 
 

The Love of a Bad Man
Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Scribe, September 2016, reviewed by Emily Laidlaw x

 
 

The Near and the Far
ed by David Carlin & Francesca Rendle-Short, Scribe, September 2016, reviewed by Sonia Nair x

 
 

Only Daughter
Anna Snoekstra, Harlequin, September 2016, reviewed by Melinda Allan x

 
 

The Rules of Backyard Cricket
Jock Serong, Text, September 2016, reviewed by Gerard Elson x

 
 

We. Are. Family
Paul Mitchell, MidnightSun, September 2016, reviewed by Myles McGuire x

 
 

Wild Island
Jennifer Livett, A&U, September 2016, reviewed by Anica Boulanger-Mashberg x

 

Nonfiction

 

Celeste
Roland Perry, ABC Books, September 2016, reviewed by Jessica Broadbent x

 
 

Doing It: Women Tell the Truth about Great Sex
ed by Karen Pickering, UQP, September 2016, reviewed by Cosima McGrath x

 
 

The Great Multinational Tax Rort
Martin Feil, Scribe, September 2016, reviewed by Chris Saliba x

 
 

The Hate Race
Maxine Beneba Clarke, Hachette, August 2016, reviewed by Amy Vuleta x

 
 

Play On! The Hidden History of Women's Australian Rules Football
Brunette Lenkic & Rob Hess, Echo Publishing, September 2016, reviewed by Lou Heinrich x

 
 

Why the Future is Workless
Tim Dunlop, NewSouth, September 2016, reviewed by Chris Saliba x

 
 

Wool Away, Boy! A Ripping Memoir of Life in the Shearing Sheds
Alan Blunt, William Heinemann, September 2016, reviewed by Patrick Mullins x

 

On tour

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On tour: Meg Rosoff x

YA author Meg Rosoff will be appearing at Melbourne and Brisbane writers’ festivals in August and September to discuss her first novel for adults, Jonathan... Read more
 

Interview

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Character building: Melina Marchetta on ‘Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil’ x

Melina Marchetta’s Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil (Viking, September) is ‘an electrifying contemporary detective thriller’ that ‘explores Europe’s simmering anti-Muslim sentiments’ in the aftermath... Read more
 

 

Obsessive impulsive: Maurilia Meehan on ‘5 Ways to be Famous Now’ x

Set on a cruise ship headed for Antarctica, Maurilia Meehan’s satirical novel 5 Ways to be Famous Now (Transit Lounge, September) is a ‘delightfully wicked... Read more
 

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