Archive for category: Fiction

Mantle
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 (a crowded … Read more »

Reviewed 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 »

Garnet
by 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 »