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1 Tracy Ryan : We Are Not Most People SH , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 2-8 June 2018;

'Perth novelist and poet Tracy Ryan’s fifth novel, We Are Not Most People, is the story of two outsiders.'

1 Sofija Stefanovic Miss Ex-Yugoslavia SH , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 5-11 May 2018;

'In 1982, Sofija Stefanovic is born into a stable and peaceful Yugoslavia. Marshal Tito is dead but the guiding principles of Brotherhood and Unity that have held the republic together for 40 years are holding firm. With a doting extended family, and parents who have enjoyed the socialist republic’s free education system to become professionals – her father an engineer and her mother a psychologist – her early childhood is happy.' (Introduction)

1 Robert Lukins The Everlasting Sunday SH , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 10-16 March 2018;

'In the winter of 1962, 17-year-old Radford is brought from London to Goodwin Manor, somewhere in the English Midlands. While we don’t know why Radford has been brought here, we learn that the manor is an institution for boys who have been “found by trouble”. He is taken to Teddy, the eccentric, kindly man in charge, who tells him practically nothing about the place, and who banishes another boy to the chicken coops to make room for him. Radford promptly gets swept up in the commotion of this lark as crowds of boys clear out the boy’s things and set them back up in the coops, and his first impression of the other residents, these marauding bodies and “sallow figures scoffing and competing”, is of a whirlwind of activity.' (Publication summary)

1 [Review Essay] Brenda Niall Can You Hear the Sea? SH , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 4-10 November 2017;

'In Can You Hear the Sea? Brenda Niall, author of biographies of Martin Boyd, Judy Cassab and Daniel Mannix, trains her eye on her grandmother, Agnes “Aggie” Maguire. ' (Introduction)

1 Michael Fitzgerald : The Pacific Room SH , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 15-21 July 2017;

'Michael Fitzgerald’s debut, The Pacific Room, is putatively a novel about the last days of Robert Louis Stevenson. After several years travelling around the Pacific, the Scottish author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde spent the last four years of his life in Samoa, on a 160-hectare estate. He became known to the locals as Tusitala (“the teller of tales”), became embroiled in local politics, and was buried there, on top of a mountain.'

1 Nicole Sinclair Bloodlines SH , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 25 March 2017;
'Bloodlines follows two Australian women as they make new lives for themselves in unfamiliar places. In modern-day Fremantle, 31-year-old Beth decides to travel to Papua New Guinea. Something has gone wrong for Beth in her life with boyfriend Sam – the reader does not find out what until late in proceedings – and at her father’s behest she takes a job with her aunt at her PNG missionary school. Meanwhile, 35 years earlier, another young woman, Rose, answers a classified and travels from Perth to a remote sheep station to start work as a cook. Rose, we know from the beginning, is Beth’s mother, and these parallel, intergenerational stories offer Sinclair the opportunity to contrast the two women’s characters and choices.' (Introduction)
1 Gretchen Shirm, Where the Light Falls SH , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 16 July 2016;

— Review of Where the Light Falls Gretchen Shirm , 2016 single work novel
1 Dominic Smith, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos SH , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 21 May 2016;

— Review of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos Dominic Smith , 2016 single work novel
1 Olga Lorenzo, The Light on the Water SH , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 20 February 2016;

— Review of The Light on the Water Olga Lorenzo , 2016 single work novel
1 Steven Amsterdam, The Easy Way Out SH , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 24 September 2016;

— Review of The Easy Way Out Steven Amsterdam , 2016 single work novel
1 Rod Jones, The Mothers SH , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 23 May 2015;

— Review of The Mothers Rod Jones , 2015 single work novel
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