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The Lebs
Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Hachette, March 2018, reviewed by Martin Shaw

Punchbowl Boys High, often dubbed ‘NSW’s most troubled school’, was the subject of a 2016 autobiographical essay by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Now, that reminiscence of... Read more
 
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Fiction

 

Before I Let You Go
Kelly Rimmer, Hachette, March 2018, reviewed by Melinda Allan x

 
 

The Cage
Lloyd Jones, Text, February 2018, reviewed by Helene Ephraim x

 
 

Cake at Midnight
Jessie L Star, S&S, January 2018, reviewed by Kat Mayo x

 
 

Dyschronia
Jennifer Mills, Picador, February 2018, reviewed by Meaghan Dew x

 
 

The Earth Does Not Get Fat
Julia Prendergast, UWA Publishing, March 2018, reviewed by Chris Gordon x

 
 

The Everlasting Sunday
Robert Lukins, UQP, March 2018, reviewed by Helene Ephraim x

 
 

Four Respectable Ladies Seek Part-time Husband
Barbara Toner, Bantam, February 2018, reviewed by Catherine Moller x

 
 

Hangman
Jack Heath, A&U, January 2018, reviewed by Simon McDonald x

 
 

The Lucky Galah
Tracy Sorensen, Picador, March 2018, reviewed by Lorien Kaye x

 
 

The Naturalist's Daughter
Tea Cooper, HQ, January 2018, reviewed by Paula Grunseit x

 
 

Spinifex and Sunflowers
Avan Judd Stallard, Fremantle Press, February 2018, reviewed by Max Oliver x

 
 

The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris, Echo, February 2018, reviewed by Portia Lindsay x

 

Nonfiction

 

A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century
Ann-Marie Priest, UWA Publishing, February 2018, reviewed by Veronica Sullivan x

 

Interview

 

Flight of fantasy: Tracy Sorensen on ‘The Lucky Galah’ x

Tracy Sorensen’s The Lucky Galah (Picador, March) recounts the lives of ordinary Australians from the 1960s until the 2000s, as narrated by a galah called... Read more
 

Feature

 

Write on: 2018 fiction preview x

New books by Ceridwen Dovey, Kristina Olsson, Melissa Lucashenko, Lloyd Jones and Gerald Murnane, and a number of highly anticipated debuts, are among Australian publishers’... Read more
 

 

Write on: 2018 nonfiction preview x

Andrea Hanke reports on Australian publishers’ local nonfiction highlights for 2018. Click here for the full preview. Recently retired Western Bulldogs captain Bob Murphy will... Read more
 

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