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Books about ‘daddy issues’ and post-mortem ‘tell-all’ memoirs by resentful offspring of the famous are not my usual reading fare, because they seem usually to be ghost written for the commercial market and are often about celebrities and sportspeople that I do not care about.  However, Clara Brack’s fictionalised life of her famous father, the …

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Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941 was technically an Australian since she was born in Kirribilli, Sydney, but the family moved to England when she was three, so she was really more British than Australian.  Unless you count her bolshiness in resisting cultural mores which she found oppressive — and that’s more than just feminism v. the …

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Deliciously macabre, The Thornbacks is the debut novel of Melbourne-based award-winning author and poet Chloe Wilson.  This is the book description that beguiled me into reading it: Deliciously unsettling and chillingly funny, this singular debut novel from prize-winner Chloe Wilson delves into the worlds we would prefer to keep hidden. ‘We didn’t do anything at …

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To borrow a word from Kim from Reading Matters, Wayne Marshall’s debut novel Henry Goes Bush is bonkers. It is also immensely entertaining. The novel links the Australian tradition of ‘tall tales and true’ with what appears to be a factual narrative about Henry Lawson‘s 1892 trip inland to Bourke, and a surreal narrative of …

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Jan Carson! What a brilliant author and what a stunning creation is her new novel Few and Far Between.  For the past few days I have been totally absorbed by this counterfactual story of a utopia that wasn’t.  Sorting out what’s true and what’s not ceases to be of any importance as the story takes …

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