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2 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Steven Carroll
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This week’s reviews include a satire on the decline of journalism and the people who struggle to make a living from it (ahem), a new love story from Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman, the chilling wartime story of Albert Einstein’s cousin Robert and a rags-to-riches sports memoir.
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Steven Carroll
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This week’s reviews feature something for all genre lovers, from a post-colonial coming-of-age story to an anthology of the autistic experience, and a wry dissection of society and nature.
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1 month ago | 
watoday.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Steven Carroll
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Steven Carroll
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Is your holiday books pile going down? Fear not, as these eight new titles take readers on journeys far and wide…FICTION PICK OF THE WEEKUnfinished BusinessShankari Chandran, Ultimo Press, $34.99Colombo, 2009. Intrepid journalist Ameena Fernando is executed on a busy street near her home. No witnesses.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
watoday.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Steven Carroll
SaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeIs your holiday books pile going down? Fear not, as these eight new titles take readers on journeys far and wide…Unfinished BusinessShankari Chandran, Ultimo Press, $34.99Colombo, 2009. Intrepid journalist Ameena Fernando is executed on a busy street near her home. No witnesses.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Steven Carroll
By Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll November 13, 2024 — 12.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTION PICK OF THE WEEKThe Mighty RedLouise ErdrichCorsair, $34.99Set in North Dakota, Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red weaves a contemporary masterpiece of American literature from despoliations wrought by the soul of empire.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Steven Carroll
By Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll October 23, 2024 — 12.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTION PICK OF THE WEEKTranslationsJumaana AbduPenguin, $34.99From the Hejira onwards, the flight from oppression towards authenticity, freedom and spiritual connection has held profound significance in Islamic thought and culture.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Steven Carroll
By Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll September 25, 2024 — 12.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTION PICK OF THE WEEKEdenhopeLouise Le Nay, Text, $34.99Strict laws curtail media reporting on child protection cases in the Children’s Court, and the public isn’t as aware as it should be of the stark realities facing families before it.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
smh.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Steven Carroll
By Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll September 11, 2024 — 3.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTION PICK OF THE WEEKBeam of LightJohn Kinsella, Transit Lounge, $32.99An ibis wading through an iridescent oil slick adorns the cover of John Kinsella’s latest short fiction collection. It’s an unnervingly beautiful image of despoliation that captures the uncanniness these 29 stories often summon to mind.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
theage.com.au | Cameron Woodhead |Steven Carroll
By Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll August 15, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FICTION PICK OF THE WEEKDead-End MemoriesBanana Yoshimoto, Faber & Faber, $26.99Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto is one of my favourite contemporary writers of short fiction. Dead-End Memories collects five stories about women coping with emotional fallout from their lives.
