KATHRYN HEYMAN Floodline. Reviewed by Robyne Young
A natural disaster provokes emotional and ethical dilemmas for the characters in Kathryn Heyman’s new novel. We each have our …
Tag Archives: Australian women’s writing
GERMAINE GREER White Beech. Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen
This passionate account of one woman’s engagement with the natural world is also a plea for conservation and rehabilitation. Under suburban …
DEBRA ADELAIDE Letter to George Clooney. Reviewed by Kylie Mason
The author of The Household Guide to Dying delivers a collection of short stories infused with hope. Debra Adelaide is …
ASHLEY HAY The Railwayman’s Wife. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren
This novel of the aftermath of war, grief and library books is written with elegance and feeling. It’s 1948, and …
ROBYN OYENIYI Love versus Goliath: Two People Against the Weight of Bureaucracy. Reviewed by Michael Jongen
This true story outlines one woman’s battle against Australian bureaucracy to be reunited with her husband. In this book Robyn …
SUSANNA FREYMARK Losing February. Reviewed by Kylie Mason
A fearless and riveting debut novel about love, obsession and redemption. Most people have someone they think of as ‘the …
Crime Scene: JENNY SPENCE No Safe Place. Reviewed by Morgan Smith
This novel introduces a new, very 21st-century Australian crime series full of tension. For women crime readers ‘of a certain …
EVIE WYLD All the Birds, Singing. Reviewed by Paula Grunseit
Why does this woman choose to live alone on an isolated sheep farm on a remote English island? A haunting …
ANNIE COSSINS The Baby Farmers. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
Sydney in the 1890s: shame, syphilis and infanticide. If you were unmarried and pregnant, or married and unable to afford …
HANNAH RICHELL The Shadow Year. Reviewed by Jody Lee
The second novel from the author of Secrets of the Tides explores the sinister legacy of an idealistic experiment. It …
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