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The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards shortlists were announced today. Fiction  A Piece of Red Cloth – Leonie Norrington, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Djawa Burarrwanga and Djawundil Maymuru, see my review Arborescence – Rhett Davis, see my review In the Name of the Trees – Merlinda Bobis Out of the Woods – Gretchen Shirm The Immigrants: Fabula Mirabilis, …

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Ah… Mary Wesley… what a nostalgic treat this novel turned out to be. Mary Wesley (1912-2002) found herself in financial straits after the death of her third husband, so, aged 71, took to writing to generate an income… and in 1983 burst into our lives with Jumping the Queue.  She went on to write ten …

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Spell the Month in Books is a linkup hosted on Reviews From the Stacks on the first Saturday of each month, but that’s the day for #6Degrees, so here we are, running late. Jana has been busy with her brand new baby, but the indefatigable Davida from The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog has reminded us that …

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There’s a blockbuster epic action fantasy film doing the rounds at the moment, so my reading of Barry Unsworth’s The Songs of the Kings is perhaps quite timely.  Written with a 21st century sensibility, it’s a retelling of an ancient story told by the Greek tragic poet Euripides. Preceding the Trojan War (from which Odysseus returns …

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Apologies to readers who saw a prematurely published fragment of this review. Francesca de Tores was an author new to me when I read Saltblood (2024), her first novel published here in Australia after she had spent many years as a writer, poet and academic in the UK.  As I wrote in my review of …

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