ARAVIND ADIGA Amnesty. Reviewed by Robert Goodman
Booker Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga takes on the issue of refugees and asylum seekers in his latest novel Amnesty. Set in Sydney, on a day sometime in the recent...
Read MoreSYLVAIN NEUVEL The Test. Reviewed by Robert Goodman
Sylvain Neuvel’s novella The Test, about the demonisation of immigrants, packs a punch and could not be more timely. Canadian author Sylvain Neuvel’s new...
Read MoreROBERT MANNE On Borrowed Time. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks
From asylum seekers to politics, climate change and the personal challenges of dealing with cancer, Robert Manne’s essays are a rich canvas and urge us to...
Read MoreJOHN DALE Plenty. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren
This quietly powerful novella proves there’s still a lot to add to the asylum-seeker debate. It’s been more than a decade since the infamous Tampa affair,...
Read MoreTHOMAS KENEALLY and ROSIE SCOTT (eds) A Country Too Far: Writings on Asylum Seekers. Reviewed by Kathy Gollan
This anthology of essays, fiction, memoir and poetry contains some powerful and impassioned writing from some of Australia’s best-known writers. The first contribution...
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