TRENT DALTON Love Stories. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks
The bestselling novelist brings together real-life love stories in this collection. How this book came together is as intrinsic to its existence as the 150 love stories...
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This novel artfully articulates the search for the perfect self, the perfect emotional and sexual mate, and the perfect life. In the opening sentence of her new novel,...
Read MoreANITA HEISS Tiddas. Reviewed by Michael Jongen
The personal is political in this joyful, and poignant, novel of five women friends on the cusp of turning 40. Tiddas is a delightful novel that covers 12 months in the...
Read MoreTHOMAS SHAPCOTT White Stag of Exile and Theatre of Darkness. Reviewed by Tony Bremner
European high culture in unlikely Australian settings lies at the heart of these two novels by Australian poet Tom Shapcott. Imagine this: a cultivated European...
Read MoreJANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL Forecast: Turbulence
These stories of family trauma find their echoes in the elements. In ‘Moon River’, the chapter of memoir that comes at the end of this collection of short stories,...
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