Renowned YA author Vikki Wakefield delves into the complex pressures of motherhood with her first adult novel – a psychological thriller.
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A bear eats a teenager, and inherits his memories. An ageing woman writer buys a tower of her own – where she reimagines the crone from Rapunzel. Two inventive new books resonate with our reviewer.
Fiona McFarlane’s ‘masterful, complicated’ novel explores the exploitative nature of storytelling. She asks us to consider the truth of the tales we tell about ourselves and our identities.
The latest novel by twice Miles Franklin winner Alex Miller traces one woman’s journey from self-absorption and isolation, to generosity and friendship.
Tracey Lien’s debut novel investigates a murder of a model student in a Cabramatta restaurant. Anh Nguyen Austen says it brilliantly conveys the complexities of the Vietnamese refugee experience.
Major plot points explode like hand grenades in Adrianne Howell’s Hydra, which is ‘never dull’, but implausible. And Alice Nelson’s Faithless, about love and literature, operates in a rarefied world.
Peggy Frew’s masterful control of Wildflowers, her fourth novel – about three sisters, once close, now estranged – promises not to engulf readers in the sorrow it must expose. Debra Adelaide reviews.
Tim Rowse concludes that Paul Daley’s new novel, inspired by true events in Arnhem Land, is fluent and skilfully paced – but doesn’t risk complicating the critical narrative of our colonial history.
Helen Garner is the pioneer of fearless self-revelation in Australian literature. Writer Sean O'Beirne examines his own literary fear and fearlessness: should he ‘give’ more, as Garner does?
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
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Writer, author, journalist, Associate Lecturer in English & Writing, University of Tasmania
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PhD Candidate, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Emeritus Professor, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Tasmania
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John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature, University of Sydney
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Researcher, Australian Catholic University
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PhD candidate, Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in French Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
