Francesca de Tores’ Cast Away or, the Surprising Adventures of Alexander Selkirk is a timely consideration of human resilience and resourcefulness.
- Associate Professor, English and Creative Writing, Edith Cowan University
The Blazing World is an amazing vision which ends as bewilderingly as it begins, making the reader’s head spin.
When Georgia Rose Phillips’ inner poet takes centre stage, The Bearcat rises to great heights. But the novel contains some anachronisms.
In her essay on the work of Tim Winton, Geraldine Brooks is looking for a punch-up with academics and critics.
From the author of The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland is a feminist classic: darkly comic and rich with irony.
Australian writer Eve Langley, author of the 1942 novel The Pea Pickers, resisted gender expectations and wrote acutely about the landscape.
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With hundreds of book covers displaying previously taboo swear words, are publishers losing the ability to shock readers?
Kangaroos are a national icon, but Australian authors seem determined to kill them off.
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