'A lot happens in this film, and for all the bureaucratic traps that Dita, in particular, must navigate, many of the plot turns are muddles of the characters’ own making.'

Anwen Crawford reviews Housekeeping for Beginners | Universal Pictures

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And Harry Croft Harry Croft offers an incredibly generous reading of my latest #envhist book, Climate Change and International History Bloomsbury Books UK Bloomsbury Australia - thanks to Harry & Australian Book Review for my first review!

'This is a memoir of life during the Cold War. Frankel’s unique experience allows him to bring colour to life on both sides of the Iron Curtain.'

Ebony Nilsson on 'No Country for Idealists' by Boris Frankel | Greenmeadows australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/cur…

'This is a complicated and deeply pertinent topic ... Thus the importance of this work is not easily overstated.'

Harry Croft on 'Climate Change and International History' by Ruth Morgan | Bloomsbury Australia
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'It is a great thing finally to have this story of barely fifty pages. It demonstrates, as Wheatley says, Clift writing at the height of her considerable powers.'

Susan Sheridan on 'The End of the Morning' by Charmian Clift | NewSouth Publishing
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'...'Troubled Minds' is wonderfully written, highly readable and a tour de force from authors who have seamlessly brought their voices together.'

Jennifer Harrison on 'Troubled Minds' by Sidney Bloch and Nick Haslam | Scribe Publications
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The best writing (full stop), but also, the best writing makes you want to run off and try new things with your own writing, right away. Big congratulations to Tracey Slaughter for her magnificent Calibre Prize winning essay, 'Why your hair is long and your stories short'.

'what really makes the book come alive is the way that Birch brings Benang into a more recent and intimate history, which is the history of Birch’s own intellectual formation'

Tony Hughes-d'Aeth reviews 'On Kim Scott by Tony Birch | Black Inc. australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/cur…

Tracey Slaughter why your hair is long & your stories short.
Winner of the Australian Book Review Calibre Essay Prize.
It's phenomenal, so precisely cut and layered.

'To believe that there can be any objectivity in portrayals of war is to believe you can please everyone. In this way, Civil War pleases no one.'

j.taylor bell reviews Civil War | Roadshow Films

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'Bradley brings a poet’s ear and eye to expressing the boundlessness that can be found in water.'

Felicity Plunkett on 'Deep Water' by James Bradley | Penguin Books Aus australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/cur…

'AustLit is unique in the world. No other country has even attempted to map its literature in this way.'

Maggie Nolan on @Austlit in the May issue australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/cur…

In Tracey Slaughter’s 'why your hair is long & your stories short', a beauty salon becomes a refracting point for the dark complexities of womanhood ... this piece is as sharp as good scissors, as evocative as it is incisive.

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I wrote about Liam Pieper’s new novel for Australian Book Review.

editors, I am well and truly open for commissions!

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