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Brigid Magner

Brigid Magner

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Fiona Wright’s Kill Your Boomers sees the dark joke in Australia’s housing crisis

Fiona Wright’s genre-defying social satire will ring bells for people who are locked out of the housing market, and those who care about inequality.

11.05.2026 10

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Brigid Magner

After early acclaim, Elizabeth Harrower didn’t write for decades. Two biographers consider why

Australian author Elizabeth Harrower wrote four novels in rapid succession. Then she stopped. Perhaps the miracle is that she wrote anything, given...

24.10.2025 10

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Brigid Magner

‘Unexpressed emotions will never die’: in Signs of Damage, Diana Reid explores the depths of the unconscious

Signs of Damage is ostensibly a realist novel, it stretches the limits of the genre, introducing psychological and mystical elements.

17.03.2025 10

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Brigid Magner