It is rare that I read a general fiction novel set in rural Australia. I thought I better spread my wings a little, so here’s my review of Return to Tamarlin by K. M. Steele. “When Tamara Slender disappears from an isolated property in Western NSW in 1975, gossip runs wild with rumours she hasContinue reading “Book review: Return to Tamarlin by K. M. Steele”
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These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper
Fran Cooper’s debut novel, These Dividing Walls, is a meditation on the way ordinary lives are impacted by racism, Islamophobia, terror attacks and the far right in contemporary Paris. “One Parisian summer A building of separate lives All that divides them will soon collapse… In a forgotten corner of Paris stands a building. Within its walls,Continue reading “These Dividing Walls by Fran Cooper”
Liam Brown’s Wild Life
As the title suggests, Wild Life by Liam Brown is not a sober story comfortable within the confines of the ordinary and the every day. Instead, protagonist Adam Britman takes the reader on a downward spiral into a nightmarish underworld. Adam is an accounts manager for a digital marketing company, husband, and father of two.Continue reading “Liam Brown’s Wild Life”
Narrative as Navigation Through the Self: Isobel Blackthorn’s Asylum
(‘Narrative as Navigation Through the Self: Isobel Blackthorn’s Asylum’ by Ness Mercieca was originally published in the October 2015 edition of The Tertangala) They say the mind does not create, and that it only cuts and pastes the stimulus it receives from the outside world. Author Isobel Blackthorn has a talent for this, in fact, I oftenContinue reading “Narrative as Navigation Through the Self: Isobel Blackthorn’s Asylum”
Isobel Blackthorn 