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A Writing Life: Helen Garner and Her Work
Bernadette Brennan, Text, April 2017, reviewed by David Gaunt

I don’t think there has been a more significant writer in my bookselling life than Helen Garner—Monkey Grip was published in 1977, the year I... Read more
 
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Fiction

 

Congo Dawn
Katherine Scholes, Viking, April 2017, reviewed by Jo Shiells x

 
 

The Hidden Hours
Sara Foster, S&S, April 2017, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree x

 
 

A Hundred Small Lessons
Ashley Hay, A&U, April 2017, reviewed by Paula Grunseit x

 
 

The Midsummer Garden
Kirsty Manning, A&U, April 2017, reviewed by Vicki Stegink x

 
 

Rubik
Elizabeth Tan, Brio, April 2017, reviewed by Alan Vaarwerk x

 
 

See What I Have Done
Sarah Schmidt, Hachette, April 2017, reviewed by Mark Rubbo x

 
 

Storyland
Catherine McKinnon, Fourth Estate, April 2017, reviewed by Kate Frawley x

 

Poetry

 

On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take
Karen Andrews, Miscellaneous Press, April 2017, reviewed by Hilary Simmons x

 

Nonfiction

 

After
Nikki Gemmell, Fourth Estate, April 2017, reviewed by Maria Alessandrino x

 
 

Beyond the Rock: The Life of Joan Lindsay and the Mystery of Picnic at Hanging Rock
Janelle McCulloch, Echo, May 2017, reviewed by Chris Saliba

 
 

Fear of Abandonment: Australia in the World since 1942
Allan Gyngell, LTUP, April 2017, reviewed by Aron Paul x

 
 

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith, HarperCollins, April 2017, reviewed by Helene Ephraim x

 
 

The Other Mother
Kelly Chandler, Affirm Press, April 2017, reviewed by Jessica Slade x

 
 

Stop Fixing Women: Why Building Fairer Workplaces is Everybody's Business
Catherine Fox, NewSouth, April 2017, reviewed by Jenni Kauppi x

 
 

Things That Helped
Jessica Friedmann, Scribe, April 2017, reviewed by Emily Laidlaw x

 

Interview

 

Body of work: Karen Andrews on ‘On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take’

Karen Andrews’ poetry collection, On the Many Shapes Bodies Will Take (Miscellaneous Press, April), ‘tackles the course of a life with such tenderness and grace... Read more
 

 

System override: Elizabeth Tan on ‘Rubik’

Elizabeth Tan’s Rubik is a novel of interconnected short stories with plotlines that explore ‘a sprawling world of shady corporations, sentient memes and hackable bodies’. The... Read more
 

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