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The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin brought down Australia’s censorship system
Patrick Mullins, Scribe, June 2020, reviewed by Julia Taylor

Starting even before Federation and lasting until the early 1970s, the Australian government controlled what Australians could read. Yet today, as Patrick Mullins recounts in this scintillating account of the... Read more
 

Fiction

 

The Hunted
Gabriel Bergmoser, HarperCollins, August 2020, reviewed by Deborah Crabtree x

 
 

The Rain Heron
Robbie Arnott, Text, June 2020, reviewed by Elizabeth Flux x

 
 

Rise & Shine
Patrick Allington, Scribe, June 2020, reviewed by Adam Ford x

 
 

Sticks and Stones
Katherine Firkin, Bantam, June 2020, reviewed by Fiona Hardy x

 

Nonfiction

 

Father of the Lost Boys
Yuot A Alaak, Fremantle Press, June 2020, reviewed by Joanne Shiells x

 

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