Let Us Descend is concerned with the neglected lives of the the poor, the despised, the dark, those barely scraping a living, but cannot capture the collective experience of slavery.
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Despite its neglect, Australian horror is alive and kicking – and crawling on the floor, frightfully howling at the moon, and swimming with creepy serpents in a lake.
These five works of Welsh gothic literature will not only help you explore Wales through the macabre but are likely to give you a good scare too.
In The Idealist, the machinations of the Australian government become a sinister backdrop to what seems to be a story of liberation.
It is how the detectives respond to superstition which cements the connections between the Conan Doyle and Christie stories
Paradise Estate is a good-humoured depiction of the travails of share-house living, with a political edge.
From haunted houses to villainous vampires, these are the spooky reads our experts just can’t forget.
The latest books by Gretchen Shirm and Briony Doyle are preoccupied with the aftermaths of recent deaths.
In Kairos, a relationship between a young woman and an older married man captures the difficulties and ambivalences of German reunification.
Perception and reality collide when a mother and daughter are compelled to live in the shadow of a monstrous artist.
Poetry and prose are prominent features in this course about how climate change is affecting the world.
A book-length thought experiment uses math to investigate some of life’s big questions.
God Forgets About the Poor is one part family saga, one part autofiction, one part Proustian journey through memory.
A new book designed to interest potential and beginning readers also offers plenty of new ideas to interest well-versed Murnanians.
Some fairy tales tell the brutal truth, others offer the hope of a happy ending. Immaculate raises the possibility of both.
Agatha Christie never explicitly said so, but many of her Belgian detective’s character traits could be interpreted as being autistic.
Cecilia Rabess’s controversial debut novel explores race, politics and love in the time of Trump.
Mysteries from China, short stories from the Balkans, a French-Morrocan autobiography and more.
A classic of modern Japanese literature, Black Rain has come to exemplify ‘atomic bomb literature’.
Family memoir and reimagined history dovetail beautifully in Kate Grenville’s latest novel.
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Penn State
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