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Q&A with Jess Ho on People with Money
Amy Chan is a queer, twenty-something artist, broke and living one bad shift away from financial disaster. Edward Smith is affluent and white, his descent into a lonely middle age cushioned by generational wealth. This is the story of their relationship – one that is lopsided, transactional and arguably doomed from the start, but that…
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Review: The Burn – climate change, radicalisation and a slow burn
2030. Devastating bushfires have plunged Australia into lockdown. When stay-at-home orders lift, Carmen isn’t relieved. Solitude has suited her too well. Carmen’s best friend, Eleni, convinces her to join her and her boyfriend, Dan, and their friend Rhett on a road trip. After months apart, Eleni says they need an unplugged week away a chance…
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Review: Sunlight Finds You explores first love and relationship trauma in the 1950s
It’s 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush, and booming with newcomers seeking sunshine and opportunity. For seventeen-year-old Nora, St. Pete feels like paradise, especially after she meets and wins over Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of transplanted New Yorkers. Nora and Leonard are soon spending balmy days and…
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Review: Loneliness is a Molecule Explores Complex People and Complex Grief
Miri was whole, once. She had a best friend, once. She knew who she was – or she thought she did. But now she is a million lonely molecules, flying through the air to a new life on the other side of the world. Rome is light and loud and cobblestones and gelaterias and ancient…
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Q&A with Jaclyn Moriarty on Time Travel for Beginners
Three strangers’ lives are forever changed when they’re all drawn to a mysterious agency claiming to have unlocked the secret to time travel. Anna, Teddy, and Jade are on a collision course. The Agency is the cause. It is also the solution. On a quiet road nestled within the bustle of Sydney lies a nondescript…
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Review: When She Was Ours shines in emotional moments but struggles with plotting
Thea Erickson, a renowned surgeon, is filled with both joy and grief as her family gathers at their home on a summer night in 1995. Her elder daughter Phoebe is getting married, but even the happiness of the day feels bittersweet, as Thea grapples with a terminal cancer diagnosis. She worries she won’t be around…
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Q&A with Jodi McAlister on A Study in Sparkling: Fine wine, romance & more
Fiona Fisher thought she had it all: a loving husband, three kids, and a life far away from the suffocating expectations of her family. But when her husband reveals that he’s leaving her for his secret second family, Fiona is left devastated and humiliated. Satoshi Tsukamoto wants it all. He’s the owner of a popular…
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Q&A with Emily Gale on The Wild Unknown: Friendships, AI, and growing up
It’s 2045 and the world is full of tech. Eddie has a bot in his ear giving him advice all day, and classroom bots keeping track of him at school. The streets are full of bird-drones, and gametech is amazing. But tech can’t help the police find a missing boy called Theo. When they abandon…
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Review: Neighbourhood Watch balances realism and hope
The annual Curlew Street scarecrow competition is back, and the residents of Melbourne’s inner north have never seen an entry like it. Shirt bloody, head and arms slumped over a scarecrow crucifix: Victoria’s most conservative Supreme Court Judge, Harry ‘The Pope’ Somerton, is dead. Priyanka Pal, a former psychologist turned homicide detective, is disturbed when…
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Q&A with Amanda Lohrey on Capture: Alien abduction, scepticism and psychiatric research
James Mather is a psychiatrist in his sixties. He is invited to take on a new group of patients. All he knows about them is that each one claims to have been abducted by aliens. His wife, Deborah, is sceptical, but he gets going anyway. His patients tell mesmerising stories. There’s Anthony, for instance, who…
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