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Scrublands
Chris Hammer, A&U, August 2018, reviewed by Scott Whitmont

In a dying Riverina town that’s suffering a merciless drought, ‘good people fight to retain honour and dignity against unfair odds’. Shockingly, one Sunday morning,... Read more
 
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Fiction

 

Beautiful Revolutionary
Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Scribe, August 2018, reviewed by Ellen Cregan x

 
 

The Biographer’s Lover
Ruby J Murray, Black Inc., August 2018, reviewed by Angela Elizabeth x

 
 

The Fireflies of Autumn
Moreno Giovannoni, Black Inc., July 2018, reviewed by Chris Saliba x

 
 

The Honourable Thief
Meaghan Wilson Anastasios, Macmillan, August 2018, reviewed by Helene Ephraim x

 
 

Prize Fighter
Future D Fidel, Hachette, July 2018, reviewed by Alan Vaarwerk x

 
 

The Shanghai Wife
Emma Harcourt, HQ, July 2018, reviewed by Kat Mayo x

 
 

A Superior Spectre
Angela Meyer, Peter Bishop, August 2018, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh x

 
 

Too Much Lip
Melissa Lucashenko, UQP, August 2018, reviewed by Amy Vuleta x

 

Nonfiction

 

Always Another Country
Sisonke Msimang, Text, August 2018, reviewed by Cher Tan x

 
 

The Eastern Curlew
Harry Saddler, Affirm Press, August 2018, reviewed by Lindy Jones x

 
 

Happy Never After
Jill Stark, Scribe, August 2018, reviewed by Sonia Nair x

 
 

No-Country Woman: A Memoir of Not Belonging
Zoya Patel, Hachette, August 2018, reviewed by Sonia Nair x

 
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The Rapids: Ways of Looking at Mania
Sam Twyford-Moore, NewSouth, August 2018, reviewed by Meelee Soorkia x

 
 

Teacher
Gabbie Stroud, A&U, July 2018, reviewed by Heath Graham x

 
 

Trace
Rachael Brown, Scribe, August 2018, reviewed by Simon McDonald x

 

Interview

 

Ghost in the machine: Angela Meyer on ‘A Superior Spectre’ x

Writer and editor Angela Meyer’s debut full-length novel, A Superior Spectre (August), is the first book published under the new Ventura Press imprint for emerging... Read more
 

 

Telling tales: Moreno Giovannoni on ‘The Fireflies of Autumn’

Moreno Giovannoni’s The Fireflies of Autumn (Black Inc., July) is a collection of loosely connected short stories, describing life in the Tuscan village of San... Read more
 

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