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EXILED FROM ALMOST EVERYWHERE by Juan Goytisolo
Translated by Peter Bush
Dec 7
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LADIES' REST AND WRITING ROOM by Kim Kelly
Australian novella tragics like me were gutted when Seizure’s annual Viva La Novella competition folded a couple of years back. Seizure had long been…
Dec 3
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November 2023
ROSE ROYAL by Nicolas Mathieu
Translated by Sam Taylor
Nov 27
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HANGMAN by Maya Binyam
We often take for granted the narrative hooks that anchor us to a text. Character. Place. Plot. The sorts of things most authors bend over backwards to…
Nov 23
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THE PEPSI-COLA ADDICT by June-Alison Gibbons
Okay, stick with me here. Back in 1983, groove metal/thrash/punk band Suicidal Tendencies burst onto the scene with their single Institutionalised…
Nov 20
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THIS PLAGUE OF SOULS by Mike McCormack
Some books lodge in your soul simply for how they made you feel while reading. I don’t remember much about Mike McCormack’s Booker long-listed Solar…
Nov 14
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SO LATE IN THE DAY by Claire Keegan
Sometimes you just have to laugh at the publishing industry. When Claire Keegan hit the big time with Small Things Like These, a lovely novella that I…
Nov 9
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COLUMBA'S BONES by David Greig
Be warned. Columba’s Bones opens with a brutal massacre. Vikings land on the shore near a secluded Scottish monastery and set about laying it to waste…
Nov 6
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AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS by Kathryn Bromwich
Laura Mantovani has escaped to a small village in the woods near the Italian border, where she mostly keeps to herself; tending the garden, reading…
Nov 2
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October 2023
THE PREMONITION by Banana Yoshimoto
Translated by Asa Yoneda
Oct 31
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VERTIGO by Amanda Lohrey
Most discussions of who might be Australia’s finest contemporary writer come down to two names: Gerald Murnane and Alexis Wright. And while I firmly…
Oct 25
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NIPPONIA NIPPON by Kazushige Abe
Translated by Kerim Yasar
Oct 22
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