Kerryn Goldsworthy and Fiona Capp have looked at a batch of recently released fiction and non-fiction books. Here are their verdicts.
At the age of 36, when writer Clem Bastow was diagnosed as autistic, so much about herself began to make sense.
Now she has a community with its own unique culture in which she feels at home, and her relief and joy is palpable. Sharp, perceptive and alive to the many ways of being in the world,sheds light on the wild and wonderful colours on the spectrum that are, all too often, invisible to or misread by the neurotypical eye.Think of a collective noun for dynamite – a powder keg? That’s this anthology. There’s no safe ground for readers here. Any page could explode in your face.
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