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Alan Fyfe
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T, a novel
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Admissions: Voices within Mental Health
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The Cross Thieves
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G-d, Sleep, and Chaos
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Poetry for the Planet: An Anthology of Imagined Futures
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Spring 2022 (Overland, #248)
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"A literary novella, The Cross Thieves (2026) by Alan Fyfe, is a dark fable of two brothers. Peloton (Pell) and Garlont (Girk) are living in a fibro squat by the river in the town of Mandurah, in Western Australia. Having not eaten in days, Girk storm"
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"“ ..you don’t have the soul of thieves. “
Themes of race, religion andrevenge are encompassed in the short but punchy read. The life for street kids is unbeknown to most but books like this make the reader ponder their plight and feel fortunate for t" Read more of this review » |
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| It's a sort of a magic realism, if you want genre, or a tall tale or a shaggy dog story. Yes, that's a dad joke, a form of humour which the protagonist, Jeffrey, end up compulsively using in Griefdogg. There are encounters with seemingly supernatural ...more | |
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"If you’re looking for a light read that barely touches you, then this is not the book for you. It is definitely not a light read; it is quite aggressive and edgy with lots of sub-stories to concentrate on and follow. It challenges the reader – or at "
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| 3.5 stars. An interesting speculation on the life of Vergil, who has very little biographical information available to help the biographer. Ruden is always careful to clarify when she's indulging in speculation, which is great - it leaves readers cle ...more | |
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| 3.5 really, which I think is around right, though I'm still deciding what I think about this book. A narrative about a normal person. Istvan tips neither into the villain nor the hero character, though at times he can act like either. Szalay's writin ...more | |
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| Is this a landmark in Australian writing? It might be. With the kind of tone and ideas you'll find in the best surrealism of Rushdie, Murakami, and Calvino, Siang Lu has crafted an entrancing tale. He has the writing chops to meet his ideas head on t ...more | |
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