Traumascapes author Maria Tumarkin examines aspects of Courage (MUP, August). Reel Time is Bruce Beresford's journal about trying to get his films made (HarperCollins, August). Former Liberal Party staffer Guy Pearse critiques the Government's climate policies in High & Dry (Penguin, May). Joan Sauers used an online survey to examine The Sex Lives of Teenagers (Random, February). Glyn Parry turns to adult fiction in Ocean Road, a coming of age story (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, October). David Brooks unravels secrets of three generations in The Lighthouse (UQP, November). Sex and drums and rock'n'roll feature in The Dirty Beat by Venero Armanno (UQP, October). Bestseller Monica McInerney writes about a woman's family secrets in My Four Aunts (Penguin, September). Mandy Sayer returns to fiction with The Night Has a Thousand Eyes, about family violence (Fourth Estate, September). Christos Tsiolkas follows his hard-hitting Dead Europe with The Slap and Matthew Condon reappears with The Trout Opera (both Random, September). Lau Siew Mei, author of Playing Madame Mao, follows up with The Dispeller of Worries, a precarious Polish-Malaysian love story (Brandl & Schlesinger, August). National Biography Award winner John Hughes has an intriguing collection of "fictional essays" by famous authors in Self Portraits (Giramondo, June).
Academic Sophie Gee goes behind The Rape of the Lock in her first novel, Scandal of the Season (Random, May). Poet Rhyll McMaster turns novelist in Feather Man, a story of betrayal (Brandl & Schlesinger, May). Elizabeth Stead of the writing dynasty has a tropical novel, The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles (UQP, May). Melbourne's Max Barry already has a US bestseller in his corporate satire Company (Scribe, March).
Landscape of Farewell is second in Alex Miller's trilogy, following Journey to the Stone Country (Allen & Unwin, November).Īnita Heiss creates the genre of Koori chick lit in Not Meeting Mr Right (Random House, February). In a more modern war, a woman tracks her "terrorist" lover in Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital (Fourth Estate, June). Thomas Keneally continues his prodigious output with The Widow and Her Hero, about a woman whose husband is beheaded by the Japanese (Random House, March). Among our big-name authors, Rodney Hall begins the year with Love Without Hope, the story of elderly Mrs Shoddy's battle against depression and the NSW Department of Lunacy (Picador, February).
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