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Room for a Stranger
Melanie Cheng, Text, May 2019, reviewed by Carody Culver x

After an attempted home invasion leaves her feeling unsafe, elderly Meg signs on with a homeshare agency: Andy, an international student from Hong Kong who’s... Read more
 
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Fiction

 

After She Left
Penelope Hanley, Ventura, May 2019, reviewed by Isobel Moore x

 
 

Attraction
Ruby Porter, Text, May 2019, reviewed by Sonia Nair x

 
 

Daughter of Bad Times
Rohan Wilson, A&U, May 2019, reviewed by Cher Tan x

 
 

A Lovely and Terrible Thing
Chris Womersley, Picador, May 2019, reviewed by Kelsey Oldham x

 

Poetry

 

The Lost Arabs
Omar Sakr, UQP, May 2019, reviewed by Sumudu Samarawickrama x

 

Nonfiction

 

Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Andreas Harsono, Monash University Publishing, May 2019, reviewed by Joshua Barnes x

 

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Generational exchange: Melanie Cheng on ‘Room for a Stranger’ x

Melanie Cheng’s debut novel Room for a Stranger (Text, May) follows the unlikely friendship between an elderly Australian woman and an international student from Hong... Read more
 

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