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Writers on Writers' series: On John Marsden and On Kate Jennings
Alice Pung (John Marsden) and Erik Jensen (Kate Jennings), Black Inc., October 2017, reviewed by Emily Laidlaw

Australian writers are being honoured in a new essay series called ‘Writers on Writers’, published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne... Read more
 
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Fiction

 

Bird Country
Claire Aman, Text, September 2017, reviewed by Alan Vaarwerk x

 
 

Drawing Sybylla
Odette Kelada, UWA Publishing, October 2017, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh x

 
 

Force of Nature
Jane Harper, Macmillan, October 2017, reviewed by Andrea Hanke x

 
 

The Life to Come
Michelle de Kretser, A&U, October 2017, reviewed by Veronica Sullivan x

 
 

A New England Affair
Steven Carroll, HarperCollins, September 2017, reviewed by Helene Ephraim x

 
 

Soon
Lois Murphy, Transit Lounge, October 2017, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree

 
 

Suburbia
Jeremy Chambers, Text, October 2017, reviewed by Brad Jefferies x

 
 

Two Steps Forward
Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist, Text, October 2017, reviewed by Melanie Mutch

 

Nonfiction

 

Baby Lost: A Story of Grief and Hope
Hannah Robert, MUP, August 2017, reviewed by Christine Gordon x

 
 

The Book of Thistles
Noëlle Janaczewska, UWA Publishing, October 2017, reviewed by Kelsey Oldham x

 
 

Call of the Reed Warbler
Charles Massy, UQP, September 2017, reviewed by Chris Saliba x

 
 

Mirror Sydney: An Atlas of Reflections
Vanessa Berry, Giramondo, October 2017, reviewed by Lindy Jones x

 
 

The Trauma Cleaner
Sarah Krasnostein, Text, October 2017, reviewed by Portia Lindsay x

 

On tour

 

On tour: Reni Eddo-Lodge

British journalist and activist Reni Eddo-Lodge is the author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Bloomsbury) and will be one... Read more
 

Interview

 

Brief encounters: Chris Feik on ‘Writers on Writers’

In October, Black Inc. is launching its new ‘Writers on Writers’ series with two titles: On John Marsden by Alice Pung and On Kate Jennings... Read more
 

 

Counter narratives: Vanessa Berry on ‘Mirror Sydney’ x

Since 2012, Vanessa Berry has been conducting deep dives into the mysterious local histories around Sydney on her blog, and her book Mirror Sydney (Giramondo,... Read more
 

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