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The Burial

The Burial (2012) – Courtney COLLINS

January 26, 2013by Matthew Todd 3 Comments

What better way to celebrate Australia Day than by reviewing the promising debut novel from a young Australian writer? The Burial has been sitting on the shelves at work, sadly […]

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Collins Courtney
Northern Girls

Northern Girls (2004) – SHENG Keyi

December 16, 2012by Matthew Todd 11 Comments

Continuing my reading of the Man Asian Literary Prize longlist, I find myself in China. I’m intrigued by this novel, not least because it is printed by Penguin China, the […]

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Sheng Keyi, SMALP2012
ru

Ru (2009) – Kim THÚY

December 8, 2012by Matthew Todd 3 Comments

This novel caught my eye a while ago for a variety of reasons. A Vietnamese-Canadian writer, Kim Thúy originally wrote this novel in French in 2009, though it was translated […]

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SMALP2012, Thúy Kim
past.the.shallows

Past the Shallows (2011) – Favel PARRETT

December 1, 2012by Matthew Todd 2 Comments

Favel Parrett’s debut novel was longlisted for the Miles Franklin earlier this year, but I’d been meaning to read it well before that. She was in Canberra several months ago, […]

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Parrett Favel
theyellowbirds

The Yellow Birds (2012) – Kevin POWERS

November 3, 2012by Matthew Todd 5 Comments

Releasing your war novel on 11 September is a risky business. If it’s really good, it will forever be remembered as a sneaky marketing tool to highlight the important message […]

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Powers Kevin
narcopolis

Narcopolis (2012) – Jeet THAYIL

June 12, 2012by Matthew Todd 2 Comments

I should start by giving full credit to Mark from Eleutherophobia for pointing me in the direction of Narcopolis. Jeet Thayil is a well-respected Indian poet, whose own history with drug […]

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SMALP2012, Thayil Jeet
wulf

Wulf (2011) – Hamish CLAYTON

June 5, 2012by Matthew Todd 1 Comment

I picked this up earlier in the year while I was in New Zealand in a rather excellent independent bookshop called Unity Books. I was looking for some new New […]

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Clayton Hamish
therovingparty

The Roving Party (2011) – Rohan WILSON

May 22, 2012by Matthew Todd 5 Comments

When Rohan Wilson won the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award last year for The Roving Party, it heralded a change in the way the award functioned. No longer would we have to […]

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Wilson Rohan
elevenseasons

Eleven Seasons (2012) – Paul D CARTER

May 15, 2012by Matthew Todd 2 Comments

I love that the Vogel winner is now published the day after the winner is announced. There was, I think, a tendency for the news to be announced and then […]

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Carter Paul D
americandervish

American Dervish (2012) – Ayad AKHTAR

March 6, 2012by Matthew Todd 4 Comments

When I wrote a post about what it meant to be Asian, as part of the Man Asian Literary Prize, I lamented the fact that immigrant experiences, and stories of […]

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Akhtar Ayad

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