Acknowledgment of Country
The Triangle is a community paper, principally for the region bounded by the three prominent mountains: Peak Alone, Gulaga and Mumbulla. It is produced on the traditional lands of the Yuin nation and we acknowledge that this was and will always be Yuin Country. We are grateful for their thousands of years of careful and deliberate stewardship of Country and pay our respects to Yuin Elders past, present and emerging.
About The Triangle
The Triangle, a not-for-profit, local, community newspaper, comes out on the first day of every month except January. Published since 2002 we have a print circulation of 1800, with a larger circulation over the summer holiday season. Our paper is free and available in print and online. If you live outside the Triangle area, an annual subscription of $45.00 will cover delivery of all 11 issues.
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Mantle
/in Fiction /by Tikka WilsonRomy Ash
Ultimo Press, RRP $34.99
Review by Wendy Tucker
Romy Ash is a young Australian female author of extraordinary talent. Her first novel, Floundering, published in 2013 was short listed for the Miles Franklin and Commonwealth Book Prizes and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. An amazing accomplishment for a thirty-year-old, first-time author.
Now, thirteen years later she has published her wild, weird, watery and wonderful second novel, Mantle. It is dystopian, Tasmanian gothic … Read more »
The Silver Book
/in Fiction /by Tikka WilsonOlivia Laing
Penguin
RRP $36.99
Review by Wendy Tucker
Olivia Laing is a New York critic and the author of eight books, both fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been translated into over 22 languages.
I was unsure about reviewing this fictional account of real things because I thought it might be too narrow in its appeal. Yes, it is set in the audacious … Read more »
Heart the Lover
/in Fiction /by Tikka WilsonHeart the Lover
Lily King
Canongate
RRP$32.99
Heart the Lover has been shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and Lily King will be a guest at the Sydney Writers Festival. King is the bestselling author of six novels and the winner of several literary prizes. She is well known in the US but was, until now, not as established in Australia. I came to this novel … Read more »
Flesh
/in Books, Fiction /by Tikka Wilsonby David Szalay
Reviewed by Wendy Tucker
This novel of restrained, realist fiction is the winner of the prestigious and lucrative Booker Prize for 2025. Not unusually, it caused controversy with its extremely pared-back prose that follows the life of one man from adolescence to late middle age.
David Szalay was born in Canada to a Canadian mother and Hungarian father, grew up in London, lived in Hungary and is now based in Vienna. He … Read more »
Garnet
/in Fiction /by Tikka Wilsonby Jennifer Severn
Vine Leaves Press
Reviewed by Wendy Tucker
Garnet is a new novel by local author Jennifer Severn. It follows her successful memoir, Long Road to Dry River which was shortlisted for the Finch Prize for memoir. An earlier manuscript of Garnet was shortlisted for the Viva la Novella prize and, now that it has been published, Garnet is a finalist for the Wishing Shelf … Read more »
Departures(s)
/in Books, Fiction /by Tikka Wilsonby Julian Barnes,
Jonathan Cape 2026
Reviewed by Sandra Renew
Julian Barnes’s latest book adds to his list of more than 20 well-regarded novels and non-fiction, including The Sense of an Ending which won the 2011 Booker Prize. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime contribution to literature in 2011 and the Légion d’honneur in 2017.
In Departure(s) Barnes employs an interesting narrative structure. There is detail of the changing relationships … Read more »