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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Sian Cain |Michael Sun |Lucy Clark |Celina Ribeiro |Alyx Gorman | +3 more
I Want Everything by Dominic AmerenaFiction, Simon & Schuster, $34.99This debut novel luxuriates in the lies it weaves. Dominic Amerena is a confident storyteller, jumping between the novel’s two narrators with ease. One, a down-on-his-luck writer searching for a story. The other, a reclusive Australian novelist who disappeared from the public eye at the height of her career.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Bec Kavanagh |Emma Joyce |Sian Cain |Katie Cunningham
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Bec Kavanagh |Emma Joyce |Sian Cain |Katie Cunningham
Signs of Damage by Diana ReidFiction, Ultimo, $34.99Diana Reid’s breakout debut, Love and Virtue, tapped the millennial zeitgeist from all angles: a campus novel exploring class, power and rape culture. Her fast follow-up, Seeing Other People, dealt in similar grey areas, starring two sisters in their 20s, both drawn to the same women. Signs of Damage is something of a departure: a thriller set in Europe across two time periods, as a family reckons with unknown trauma.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Sian Cain |Susan Wyndham |James Bradley |Alyx Gorman |Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen | +9 more
Juice by Tim WintonFiction, Penguin, $49.99 (hardback)Juice opens as our unnamed narrator, surviving in a climate-ravaged Australia 200 years into the future, is captured by a hostile party and forced to tell his story to save his life – a sort of Scheherazade at the end of the world.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Bec Kavanagh
Jacqueline Bublitz’s first novel, Before You Knew My Name, was praised for the way it used the trappings of crime fiction to explore feminism and female resilience against the onslaught of male violence. In her second novel, she takes another run at similar themes; the result is a complex and sometimes confronting read. We meet Ruth, our protagonist, on the day a young girl goes missing from her home town.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sian Cain |Jack Callil |Jenny Valentish |Yvonne Lam |Catriona Menzies-Pike |Nigel Featherstone | +1 more
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Sian Cain |Jack Callil |Jenny Valentish |Yvonne Lam |Catriona Menzies-Pike |Nigel Featherstone | +1 more
The best books out in November: Leave The Girls Behind by Jacqueline Bublitz, Max Dupain by Helen Ennis, Squat by John Safran, The Voice Inside by John Farhnam, Unlovable by Darren Hayes, Theory and Practice by Michelle de Krester, Highways and Byways by Jimmy Barnes, Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class and Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine.Composite: Allen & Unwin / HarperCollins / Penguin Australia / Hachette / Text / HarperCollins / Murdoch Books / Black Inc The Voice Inside by John Farnham...
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Sian Cain |Jack Callil |Jenny Valentish |Yvonne Lam |Catriona Menzies-Pike |Bec Kavanagh
The Voice Inside by John FarnhamMemoir, Hachette, $49.99Most Australians would assume they know everything they need to know about Farnham, possibly our best living singer, given his living-legend status and that song’s ubiquity. But Farnham is a man who prizes privacy and he has largely kept his cards close to his chest – until just three years ago, when he allowed film-maker Poppy Stockell to make a documentary about him.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Bec Kavanagh
Emily Maguire has written across fiction and nonfiction, for adults and young people, stepping easily from one to the other across a career punctuated by award wins and shortlistings (including her 2016 novel, An Isolated Incident, shortlisted for the Stella prize, the Miles Franklin and the ABIA book of the year). In Rapture, her seventh novel, she turns her hand to historical fiction.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sian Cain |Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Dee Jefferson |Bec Kavanagh |Michael Sun | +2 more
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