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25.01.2022 "Pybus... brings a female perspective to white colonisation... In restoring the truth of Truganini and her people, [she] has made an important contribution to acknowledging what is owed to the people who possessed this country for 60,000 years..." Suzanne Marks reviews Cassandra Pybus's biography Truganini:

25.01.2022 "The Performance is an intense, deeply introspective novel that takes place almost entirely in its characters’ thoughts. ... Inventive and clever, [it] is a novel about art and life ..." Michelle McLaren reviews Claire Thomas's second novel The Performance:

25.01.2022 "Bates’s pithy mixture of thoroughly researched facts, opinion and personal experience updates Susan Faludi’s Backlash for the digital age .." Justine Ettler reviews Laura Bates' Men Who Hate Women:

23.01.2022 "Michael Mohammed Ahmad completes an enthralling trilogy of autofiction with The Other Half of You, his third novel." Paul Anderson reviews Michael Mohammed Ahmad's The Other Half of You:

22.01.2022 "This is a different world to the present, if one that still seems within reach, and we are reminded of this each time Bloom describes Libby’s hippy-inspired fashion, Ben’s red velour tracksuit, the smattering of bean bag décor and most of all the casual smoking. But the ‘70s, as now, were transitional times." Sally Nimon reviews Laura Bloom's new novel The Women and the Girls. You can read the full review via the link in our bio. #thewomenandthegirls #fiction #newn...ovel #australianfiction #australianwriters #australianwomenwriters #bookreview #laurabloom #1970s @allenandunwin @laurabloomify See more

21.01.2022 In The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris's protagonist Nella "is a sharp-eyed, likeable, acute and witty observer of the office life around her. She knows the idiosyncrasies of the various editors the one who leaves greasy thumb marks on manuscripts; the one who is a friend of the owner and is never there ..." Ann Skea reviews Zakiya Dalila Harris's debut novel The Other Black Girl. You can read the full review via the link in our bio. #zakiyadalilaharris #theot...herblackgirl #fiction #newnovel #nypublishing #bookpublishing #editing #editorialassistants #diversity #diversityinpublishing #blackwriters #newyork #mystery #bookreview @bloomsburypublshing @zakiyadalilaharris See more

21.01.2022 "The Rose Daughter is everything that a tale about werewolves, selkies, goblins and many other magical beings set in the modern world should be." Amelia Dudley reviews Maria Lewis's new novel:

17.01.2022 "... the narrator’s life is, in many ways, like the solitude many of us have experienced during the Covid epidemic, although this book pre-dates it. In effect, it slowly builds a picture of a woman reviewing her past, questioning the way it has shaped her life, and making a decision to change it." Ann Skea reviews Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel Whereabouts:

15.01.2022 "Born into This brims with insight and hard truths in stories that are vividly drawn and frequently compelling." Linda Funnell reviews Adam Thompson's debut collection of short stories:

14.01.2022 "Emily Maguire has created a world we know and peopled it with characters we can care about. Most importantly, her novel leaves us with complex questions to consider." Linda Godfrey reviews Emily Maguire's new novel Love Objects:

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14.01.2022 "The Other Black Girl is an impressive first novel. Zakiya Dalila Harris... knows the publishing world [and] is an excellent storyteller whose characters come alive ..." Ann Skea reviews Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl:

13.01.2022 "Because of her neuroticism as well as her insecurity, Jen comes off as an immensely likeable character. One feels not so much trapped in her mind as nestled inside of it ..." Kiran Bhat reviews Jen Craig's novella Panthers & the Museum of Fire:

11.01.2022 "Bani Adam is funny, punchy and emotional, a great character to read. ... the writing is brave, authentic and unrestrained as it imparts slices of Lebanese-Australian life." Paul Anderson reviews Michael Mohammed Ahmad's new novel The Other Half of You. You can read the full review via the link in our bio. #michaelmohammedahmad #theotherhalfofyou #fiction #australianfiction #autofiction #australianauthors #australianwriters #arabaustralians #muslimaustralians #newbook #...bookreview @hachetteaus See more

08.01.2022 "The book achieves a subtlety and nuance that a more didactic novel could not sustain, to speak of the discomfiting truth at the dark heart of white Australia": Ben Ford Smith reviews Robert Horne's The Glass Harpoon:

07.01.2022 "While constructed as a stand-alone response to a friend’s literary work, Panthers and the Museum of Fire employs its premise to deconstruct what can or cannot be said, experienced, or felt in the context of a story. It is the ideal book for those who are interested not in the destination of a plot but in the interior journey of a character ..." Kiran Bhat reviews Jen Craig's novella Panthers & the Museum of Fire. You can read the full review via the link in our bio. #j...encraig #panthersandthemuseumoffire #novella #australianwriters #australianwomenwriters #australianfiction #fictionaboutwriting #glebe #literaryambition #writing #bookreview @spineless_wonders @absurdenticements @originalsin_0421 See more

03.01.2022 "The thing that stands out in reading Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue is the clarity of Ginsburg’s thought, the way she systematically dissects and examines complex issues..." Braham Dabscheck reviews Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A life’s work fighting for a more perfect Union: https://buff.ly/3vYYukZ

03.01.2022 "Echolalia is... a searing examination of the marriage between capitalism and patriarchy, in which the full horror of mothering in an uncaring, self-entitled society is on display." Amy Walters reviews Briohny Doyle's new novel Echolalia: