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All in reviews
In this review-interview, author Barbara Hannay shares about the inspiration and the heart behind her new family drama, Meet Me in Venice.
In Shoot Through, JM Green’s latest in the Stella Hardy trilogy of thrillers, we encounter a wisecracking, distinctly Aussie heroine who doesn’t mind crossing a few moral boundaries in order to get at the truth.
Nova Weetman’s latest middle grade novel features two beautiful young characters and a hard-won friendship.
Three of the best: the non-fiction reads you should pick up before Sydney Writers’ Festival.
Heading to SWF? You should definitely check out The Lost Man, The Fragments, The Scholar and The Life to Come before you do.
A review of Claire Adam’s spare and unsettling debut, Golden Child.
In which Kilmeny of the Orchard turns out to be an uncomfortable story-version of 1D’s “What Makes You Beautiful.”
Short stories of horror and hope set in a world that too closely resembles our own.
Helen Garner’s modern classic Monkey Grip gets a makeover in this fresh new re-release from Text Publishing. But the text remains its original, startling self.
