CLARE MOLETA Unsheltered. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey

CLARE MOLETA Unsheltered. Reviewed by Linda Godfrey

Clare Moleta’s novel canvases big questions as a mother searches for her child in a hostile landscape. The opening scene of Clare Moleta’s debut novel describes two farmers standing in the rain. Their daughter runs towards them – she’s scared; she’s five years...
OLIVIA SUDJIC Asylum Road. Reviewed by Ann Skea

OLIVIA SUDJIC Asylum Road. Reviewed by Ann Skea

Olivia Sudjic’s second novel ranges from London to Sarajevo and explores displacement, exile, and refuge. Too often, the quotations an author chooses to preface their book seem to be put there to puzzle the reader. The two quotations chosen by Olivia Sudjic for...
ARAVIND ADIGA Amnesty. Reviewed by Robert Goodman

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 past, Amnesty concentrates on Dhananjaya Rajaratnam, aka Danny the Cleaner, as he grapples with his...

JOHN 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, and still Australian political discourse returns time and time again to the same sorry shambles – our...