2018 was a huge year for reviews with our editors covering a range of genres, themes and authors. Take a trip down memory lane to see all the great Aussie titles we reviewed in 2018!
Defying Doomsday edited by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench, reviewed by Jemimah Halbert Brewster
Grace Beside Me by Sue McPherson, reviewed by Kate Lomas Glendenning
Small Farm Success by Andrew Campbell and Anna Featherstone, reviewed by Jemimah Halbert Brewster
Marlborough Man by Alan Carter, reviewed by Dylan Dartnell in Underground Issue 21: Mythological Creatures
Songs that Sound Like Blood by Jared Thomas, reviewed by Jess Gately
Stone Circle by Kate Murdoch, reviewed by Shelley Carter
Honey Farm Dreaming by Anna Featherstone, reviewed by Jemimah Halbert Brewster
Fire Boy by Sami Shah, reviewed by Shelley Carter
Bird Country by Claire Aman, reviewed by Jemimah Halbert Brewster in Underground Issue 22: Pop!
Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein, reviewed by Jess Rae
The Sisters’ Song by Louise Allan, reviewed by Jess Gately
Little Lost Girl by Graham Wilson, reviewed by Shelley Carter
Stay Well Soon by Penny Tangey, reviewed by Jemimah Halbert Brewster
Off the Track by Cristy Burne, reviewed by Kate Lomas Glendenning
How to be Held by Maddie Godfrey, reviewed by Jemimah Halbert Brewster
Neverland by Margot McGovern, reviewed by Jess Rae in Underground Issue 23: Cast
Alfred’s War by Rachel Bin Salleh and illustrated by Samantha Fry, reviewed by Kate Lomas Glendenning
Benny Bungarra’s Big Bush Clean-Up by Sally Morgan and illustrated by Ambelin Kwaymullina, reviewed by Kate Lomas Glendenning
Rohypnol by Andrew Hutchinson, reviewed by Fred Woolhouse
Oriental Vagabonds by Richard Regan, reviewed by Fred Woolhouse
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman, reviewed by Jess Gately
Black Cockatoo by Carl Merrison and Hakea Hustler, reviewed by Shelley Carter
Blakwork by Alison Whittaker, reviewed by Jess Rae
Monster Party by the Children from RAWA with Alison Lester and Jane Godwin, reviewed by Kate Lomas Glendenning in Underground Issue 24: Bars
Clever Crow by Nina Lawrence and Bronwyn Bancroft, reviewed by Kate Lomas Glendenning in Underground Issue 24: Bars
Our Last Trip to the Market by Lorin Clarke and illustrated by Mitch Vane, reviewed by Jess Gately in Underground Issue 24: Bars
Great post!
I believe there is a third way of uniting a story cycle, and that would be through an event. There’s a movie by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, called Amores Perros (nominated for an Oscar in 2000) that tells three different stories that are linked by a car crash and the fact that the protagonists have dogs.
Two other movies with a central event joining their stories are 21 grams and Babel. Sorry, I have no book references for this.