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The Van Apfel Girls are Gone
Felicity McLean, Fourth Estate, March 2019, reviewed by Angela Elizabeth x

Felicity McLean’s debut novel The Van Apfel Girls are Gone opens with the arrival of a ghost, ‘summoned by the death rattle of Cornflakes in... Read more
 
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Fiction

 

Exploded View
Carrie Tiffany, Text, March 2019, reviewed by Lindy Jones x

 
 

Hare’s Fur
Trevor Shearston, Scribe, March 2019, reviewed by Scott Whitmont x

 
 

Islands
Peggy Frew, A&U, March 2019, reviewed by Bec Kavanagh x

 
 

Star-crossed
Minnie Darke, Michael Joseph, March 2019, reviewed by Kat Mayo x

 

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Black is the New White
Nakkiah Lui, A&U, February 2019, reviewed by Karen Wyld x

 

Nonfiction

 

Stranger Country
Monica Tan, A&U, March 2019, reviewed by Meelee Soorkia x

 
 

Unlike the Heart: A Memoir of Brain and Mind
Nicola Redhouse, UQP, March 2019, reviewed by Anne Barnetson x

 

Interview

 

Written in the stars: Minnie Darke on ‘Star-crossed’ x

Minnie Darke’s Star-crossed (Michael Joseph, March) follows an aspiring journalist who begins to tinker with her paper’s astrology section after learning that her crush consults his horoscope... Read more
 

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