The Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple

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Category: Anthologies | Reading Level: 3 Biography

Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews. When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The R ed Hand, and it reveals the master at the peak of his powers. The Red Hand also includes the screenplay of Valentine's Day, an improbably delightful story about an ailing country football club, which in 2007 was adapted for television by the ABC. Also included are his short fiction, his reflections on the Australian idiom, a handful of autobiographical fragments, and a selection of his brilliant book reviews. Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing. ...Show more

Quarterly Essay 77: Cry Me a River, The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin by Margaret Simons by Margaret Simons

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Category: Anthologies | Series: Quarterly Essay

The Murray-Darling Basin is the food bowl of Australia, and it's in trouble. What does this mean for the future - for water and food, and for the people and towns that depend on it? In this Quarterly Essay, acclaimed journalist Margaret Simons takes a trip through the basin, all the way from Queensland to South Australia. She shows that its plight is environmental but also economic, and enmeshed in ideology and identity. Her essay is both a portrait of the Murray-Darling Basin and an explanation of its woes. It looks at rural Australia and the failure of political processes over the last few generations to meet the needs of communities forced to bear the heaviest burden of change. It considers corruption and resource politics, drought and climate change.   ...Show more

Meanjin Vol 79 No 4 by Jonathan Green

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Category: Anthologies

A Neil Gaiman Reader - Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman

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Category: Anthologies

'This collection is [like] the Beatles' "White Album": massive in size and scope, with individually brilliant pieces presented together because the only context they need is how good they are' MARLON JAMES A captivating collection of fiction from one of the world's most beloved writers, introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author, Marlon James. With a writer as prolific as Neil Gaiman, where do you begin? Or how do you know what to try next? Spanning his career to date, this collection of ambitious, groundbreaking and endlessly imaginative fiction will be your guide. Curated within this book are nearly fifty of Gaiman's short stories and novellas, interposed with excerpts from his five novels for adults - Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It is both an entryway to his oeuvre and a literary trove Gaiman fans old and new will return to time and again. Start where it suits you. There aren't any rules. NEIL GAIMAN. WITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES. ...Show more

Meanjin Vol 79 No 2 by Jonathan Green

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Category: Anthologies

Intimacy Author and essayist Lucia Osborne-Crowley examines the cost of intimacy for women in a world where men demand exclusive access to the closeness of their female partners, often without returning the emotional labour involved. Other essays include- Academic and author Toby Miller looks at the st ate of the world, from climate change and species extinctions, to the culture of social media and misinformation, the growing gulfs of economic and social inequality, and concludes that the problem is universal and can be summed up in one word- capitalism. Critic and academic Emmett Stinson writes on the sad gap between the content provided by the news sources that inform us and, well, reality. Noongar author Claire G. Coleman writes on the long shadow of the Stolen Generations- 'Dad discovered he was Noongar when he was 63, when I was 30, when his Uncle Bob died...' Author Eleanor Gordon-Smith considers the irresistible rise of populism ... and how giving people what (they think) they want is reshaping the world. Poet Toby Fitch details Australian animal and bird extinction from 1788 to the present. And author Ellena Savage on the strange and deeply personal world of acknowledgement pages. Plus- New memoir, new fiction, and the best in new Australian poetry. ...Show more