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The Gypsy Economist: The life and times of Colin Clark by Alex Millmow
by John Tang •
Pride of Place: Exploring the Grimwade Collection edited by Alisa Bunbury
by John Arnold •
Maria Takolander’s fourth book of poetry, Trigger Warning (University of Queensland Press, $24.99 pb, 100 pp), is a sharp and arresting collection, fierce in its emotions and determination to make language do the hard work of speaking that which hovers at the edge of articulation. This is a poetics that traces everywhere the lurking presence of the disruptive – in domestic life, in global crises, even in our most intimate experiences. Takolander’s courageous poetry becomes both a landscape in which to inscribe what is unbearable and a sphere in which it might be, at least partially, managed.
... (read more)The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories edited by Margaret Jull Costa
by Alice Whitmore •
Condemned: The transported men, women and children who built Britain’s empire by Graham Seal
by Seumas Spark •
Smuggled: An illegal history of journeys to Australia by Ruth Balint and Julie Kalman
by Elisabeth Holdsworth •