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The Medicine: A doctor’s notes
Karen Hitchcock, Black Inc., February 2020, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux x

When discussing modern medicine there is a lot to consider. There are the complexities of the doctor/patient relationship. The wellbeing of doctors. How responsible treatment... Read more
 
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Fiction

 

Cherry Beach
Laura McPhee-Browne, Text, February 2020, reviewed by Carody Culver x

 
 

A Couple of Things Before the End: Stories
Sean O’Beirne, Black Inc., February 2020, reviewed by Adrian Hardingham x

 
 

Fauna
Donna Mazza, A&U, February 2020, reviewed by Anne Barnetson x

 
 

In the Clearing
J P Pomare, Hachette, February 2020, reviewed by Simon McDonald x

 
 

Jane in Love
Rachel Givney, Michael Joseph, February 2020, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert x

 
 

Maggie’s Going Nowhere
Rose Hartley, Michael Joseph, January 2020, reviewed by Kate Cuthbert x

 
 

No Neat Endings: Stories
Dominic Carew, MidnightSun, February 2020, reviewed by Nathan Smith x

 
 

Shirl
Wayne Marshall, Affirm, February 2020, reviewed by Myles McGuire x

 

Nonfiction

 

Shark Arm: A shark, a tattooed arm and two unsolved murders
Phillip Roope & Kevin Meagher, A&U, January 2020, reviewed by Brad Jefferies x

 
 

Ten Doors Down: The story of an extraordinary adoption reunion
Robert Tickner, Scribe, February 2020, reviewed by Julia Taylor x

 
 

A Year in the Mud and the Toast and the Tears: My (semi) rural kind of life
Georgie Brooks, Bad Apple Press, February 2020, reviewed by Jacqui Davies x

 

Interview

 

Among the animals: Donna Mazza on ‘Fauna’

Donna Mazza’s novel Fauna (A&U, February) is set in a near-future in which a woman is enticed into an experimental program that mixes her embryo... Read more
 

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