Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on
Juice is a Tim Winton novel, but not as you know it. Though it shares many concerns with his other works – the environment, family, the costs of an activist’s life – it also has an urgent energy I haven’t see before: a zing that jolts you out of your comfort zone, like a slap to the face.
The image of a house as a cage is one of many that stuck with me from this tender novella about family, grief and finding hope in the dark. That hope comes in the form of two new arrivals, who disrupt the suffocating atmosphere: Amy’s mother, Pauline, recovering from an accident, who moves into the granny flat; and a rescue rabbit, Fiver, who moves into the yard. –
The Yuwaalaraay author Nardi Simpson follows up her transgenerational epic Song of the Crocodile with a tremendous feat of imagination that spans from the late 18th-century Warrane/Sydney to the present, and takes us from its concrete jungle to the depths of the harbour to the inside of a womb – and beyond.
In ninth-century Europe, Agnes is isolated by her gender and circumstance, and the revelation of her true identity could cost her her life. Maguire’s narrative voice brings a freshness to the historical setting, and Agnes’s desire to make her life meaningful hits hard. –Robbie Arnott’s fourth novel, Dusk, tells the story of a pair of twins who set off into the Tasmanian highlands to hunt down and kill a puma that has been preying on sheep.
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