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Isobelle Carmody on Daniel Findlay's 'Novel of Revelation',
single work
column
'The acclaimed fantasy author dives into the apocalyptic world of Findlay’s ambitious first novel, Year of the Orphan.'
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Lucy Treloar on Writing about Indigenous Australians : 'I Felt Filled with Conflict',
single work
column
'In telling the story of her settler ancestors, the Salt Creek author knew she was on controversial ground. Two years and much praise later, she still feels torn.'
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‘I Started Dry Retching’: The Harrowing World of a Trauma Cleaner,
Lou Heinrich
(interviewer),
single work
interview
'Dorothy’s front door wouldn’t open. So they took it off its hinges.
'[We] were confronted immediately by a wall of garbage, decades upon decades of accumulated detritus,” says Sarah Krasnostein, author of The Trauma Cleaner. Dorothy’s impenetrable house was in a wealthy suburb, not far from a cafe that made raw almond milk. Krasnostein had arrived there with Sandra Pankhurst, the 63-year-old owner and operator of Specialised Trauma Cleaning Services.' (Introduction)
