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Fierceland

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Omar Musa
Penguin, RRP $34.99

reviewed by Wendy Tucker

Omar Musa is an author, visual artist, poet and rapper of Irish and Malaysian descent. This multitude of talents combine in Fierceland, his second novel, to produce this multifaceted epic novel and winner of the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award.

Set mainly in North Borneo, Australia and America, with brief visits to Venice and Nigeria, this novel spans over 160 years. … Read more »

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Whistler

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Whistler
Ann Patchett
Bloomsbury, RRP $35.00

Reviewed by Wendy Tucker

This is the eleventh novel by Ann Patchett. Her breakout novel was Bel Canto (2001) which won the prestigious Woman’s Prize (then called the Orange Prize), many other literary prizes and was an international best seller. The six novels that Patchett has written since have all been acclaimed best sellers.

Patchett is one of the most influential people in publishing. She helped Virginia … Read more »

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The Things We Never Say

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Cover image - a wall, window and chair with a jacket draped on one corner.The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout
Penguin, RRP $35.00

Reviewed by Wendy Tucker

I hardly dare to review this new novel by this highly acclaimed and most beloved author with a world-wide devoted readership. This is Strout’s (I want to call her Elizabeth because I feel I know her) eleventh novel and she is again long listed for the 2026 Booker Prize. … Read more »

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Mantle

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Romy 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 »

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The Silver Book

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Cover a photo of three men in a boat.The Silver Book
Olivia 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 »

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Heart the Lover

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Heart the Lover book coverReviewed by Wendy Tucker

Heart 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 »

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