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Joy Moody Is Out of Time by Kerryn Mayne

Reviewed by Aurelia Orr

For their whole lives, Joy Moody has told her adopted twin daughters Andromeda and Cassiopeia that they are both from the future, and on their 21st birthday they will be transported back to the year 2050 to save the world…

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The Hunter by Tana French

Reviewed by Lian Hingee

In Tana French’s 2015 novel The Searcher, retired cop Cal Hooper moves from Chicago to a remote Irish village where he becomes entangled in the case of a missing teenage boy. In her long-awaited new book The Hunter

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Anna O by Matthew Blake

Reviewed by Aurelia Orr

On the 30th of August, 2019, Anna Ogilvy committed a double homicide, brutally killing her two best friends. The catch is that she was sleepwalking when she committed the murder, and she has not woken up since. Four years later…

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What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

Reviewed by Lian Hingee

Australia is blessed with some of the very best crime writers in the world right now, and Dervla McTiernan is without a doubt one of the finest. Her debut, The Rúin, was a global bestseller that won a host…

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36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le

Reviewed by Rosalind McClintock

Nam Le’s first book, the award-winning volume of short stories titled The Boat, not only exceeded all expectations, but also shattered them. For a book of short stories to be so widely read, praised, and reviewed is exceedingly rare…

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The Warm Hand of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

Reviewed by Nicole Vasilev

The Warm Hands of Ghosts is an unforgettable story centring on themes of war, love and loss. Throughout the novel, Katherine Arden brings about alternating timelines between two separated siblings, a wounded nurse and a traumatised soldier.

Set in January…

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Tell by Jonathan Buckley

Reviewed by Melanie Basta

In Tell, a gardener talks about a wealthy businessman and art collector she used to work for in a series of interview transcripts. The man has disappeared, and the gardener is now being interviewed about his life at his…

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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken

Reviewed by Pilgrim Hodgson

‘It is clear there is no simple beginning or simple ending. Every live thing is the history and future of all dead things. Every dead thing is the future of all live things.’ So muses the undead narrator of It

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Clear by Carys Davies

Reviewed by Pierre Sutcliffe

Set in Scotland in the 1840s during the Highland Clearances (when the land-owning gentry decided that it was more profitable to clear their land of tenant farmers and their families and replace them with sheep), this incendiary and concise novel…

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The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft

Reviewed by Kate McIntosh

Irena Rey is ‘Our Author’, a woman revered and adored across the globe for her brilliant novels, and her charismatic ways. No one adores her more than her tribe of translators, all of whom have gathered at her home on…

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