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'How far would your government go?

'A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcoming election. But this is no simple task. Her brother and sister are on either side of politics, the community is full of conspiracy theories, and her father is quoting Shakespeare. Only on Bruny does the world seem sane.

'Until Astrid discovers how far the government is willing to go.

'Bruny is a searing, subversive, brilliant novel about family, love, loyalty and the new world order.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2019 .
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      Extent: 424p.p.
      Reprinted: 5 Oct 2022
      Note/s:
      • Published October 2019.
      ISBN: 9781760875169
Form: audiobook
    • Chatswood, Chatswood - Gordon - Castlecrag area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Wavesound , 2019 .
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      Extent: 11 hours and 32 min.p.
      Description: 10 audio CDs; 1 MP3 CD; audio download
      Note/s:
      • Released 1 October 2019 
      ISBN: 9781528879842 (CDs), 9781528879859 (MP3CD), 9781528879613 (audio download)
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Tasmania First : Ecofascism and the Settler Invasion Fantasy Elias Greig , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 249 2023; (p. 3-16)

'Part way through Bruny, Heather Rose's first foray into the thriller genre, Dr Astrid Coleman (UN fixer and covert CIA agent. 'six feet tall and trained to defend myself', twin sister to the Tasmanian premier, half-sister to the Tasmanian opposition leader, scion of a political dynasty and proud 'sixth-generation Tasmanian) turns to her love interest. Dan Macmillan (retired-paratrooper-turned-tradie-turned-works-manager with a Celtic sleeve tattoo, 'Paul Newman blue' eyes and 'a Chris Pine been-down-Texas-robbing-a-bank look' but 'strong' like Chris Hemsworth) as he skins up a joint to ask 'Why are we letting paradise get invaded?' The two have just conspired with Astrid's brother, Liberal premier John 'JC' Coleman, to conceal the death of a Chinese worker on a vast suspension bridge being built to connect Bruny Island and its mixture of wealthy holiday shack owners, gastronomes, bespoke hoteliers and artisanal farmers to the Tasmanian mainland—a project bankrolled by the Chinese Communist Party's Belt and Road initiative, waved through at the highest levels of state and federal government. The dead worker is one of hundreds flown in from China, their extra labour necessitated by a terrorist attack that takes out half the bridge just before construction is complete —an attack later revealed as a false flag operation carried out by the Australian secret services.' (Introduction)

Australian Science Fiction Colin Steele , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 102-109)
— Review of On the Beach Nevil Shute , 1957 single work novel ; Bruny Heather Rose , 2019 single work novel ; The Cruel Stars John Birmingham , 2019 single work novel ; Ghost Species James Bradley , 2020 single work novel
y separately published work icon A Conversation with Heather Rose Amanda Rayner (interviewer), 2020 23469941 2020 single work podcast interview

'2017 Stella Prize winner Heather Rose chats with Readings bookseller Amanda Rayner about her new novel, Bruny.'  (Production summary)
Bruny by Heather Rose Nicola Heath , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , November 2019;
— Review of Bruny Heather Rose , 2019 single work novel

'Bruny Island is the surprising setting for the final battle of the culture wars in Heather Rose’s political satire.'
Being There Libby Robin , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , November 2019;
— Review of Bruny Heather Rose , 2019 single work novel 'Heather Rose has written a novel for uncertain times'
Explosions and Digressions Nicole Abadee , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 415 2019; (p. 51)
— Review of Bruny Heather Rose , 2019 single work novel

'Tasmanian writer Heather Rose’s fifth adult novel, Bruny, about a joint venture between the Chinese, Australian, and Tasmanian governments, is well timed, given current concerns about the covert infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party into Australia’s universities and given Federal MP Andrew Hastie’s recent warning that Australia should approach its relations with China with care, lest its sovereignty be diminished. Rose’s last novel, The Museum of Modern Love, which in 2017 won the Stella Prize and the Christina Stead Prize, is set in New York. In Bruny, Rose returns to Tasmania where her earlier novels are set. Part political thriller, part family saga, part love letter to Tasmania, this is her most ambitious novel to date. Bruny covers a multitude of issues, including family loyalty, betrayal, corruption, environmental protection, and the rise of China.'(Introduction)
Bruny Review : Heather Rose’s New Book Has a Sense of Place yet Taps into Global Unease Simon Ryan , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 24 October 2019;
— Review of Bruny Heather Rose , 2019 single work novel

'When in 2017 Nordstrom began selling US$425 jeans (A$620) covered in fake mud, it seemed the long prophesied “late stage capitalism” had finally arrived. Suddenly the phrase itself was everywhere from Reddit to Twitter and applied to every freakish story about excessive consumption or corporate perfidy.' (Introduction)
Chafing Satire and Explosive Views Rohan Wilson , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 9 November 2019; (p. 21)
— Review of Bruny Heather Rose , 2019 single work novel
Being There Libby Robin , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , November 2019;
— Review of Bruny Heather Rose , 2019 single work novel 'Heather Rose has written a novel for uncertain times'
Australian Science Fiction Colin Steele , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , July vol. 102 no. 2020; (p. 102-109)
— Review of On the Beach Nevil Shute , 1957 single work novel ; Bruny Heather Rose , 2019 single work novel ; The Cruel Stars John Birmingham , 2019 single work novel ; Ghost Species James Bradley , 2020 single work novel
y separately published work icon A Conversation with Heather Rose Amanda Rayner (interviewer), 2020 23469941 2020 single work podcast interview

'2017 Stella Prize winner Heather Rose chats with Readings bookseller Amanda Rayner about her new novel, Bruny.'  (Production summary)
Tasmania First : Ecofascism and the Settler Invasion Fantasy Elias Greig , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 249 2023; (p. 3-16)

'Part way through Bruny, Heather Rose's first foray into the thriller genre, Dr Astrid Coleman (UN fixer and covert CIA agent. 'six feet tall and trained to defend myself', twin sister to the Tasmanian premier, half-sister to the Tasmanian opposition leader, scion of a political dynasty and proud 'sixth-generation Tasmanian) turns to her love interest. Dan Macmillan (retired-paratrooper-turned-tradie-turned-works-manager with a Celtic sleeve tattoo, 'Paul Newman blue' eyes and 'a Chris Pine been-down-Texas-robbing-a-bank look' but 'strong' like Chris Hemsworth) as he skins up a joint to ask 'Why are we letting paradise get invaded?' The two have just conspired with Astrid's brother, Liberal premier John 'JC' Coleman, to conceal the death of a Chinese worker on a vast suspension bridge being built to connect Bruny Island and its mixture of wealthy holiday shack owners, gastronomes, bespoke hoteliers and artisanal farmers to the Tasmanian mainland—a project bankrolled by the Chinese Communist Party's Belt and Road initiative, waved through at the highest levels of state and federal government. The dead worker is one of hundreds flown in from China, their extra labour necessitated by a terrorist attack that takes out half the bridge just before construction is complete —an attack later revealed as a false flag operation carried out by the Australian secret services.' (Introduction)

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