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Kathryn Heyman’s novel about dying and difficult families resists easy consolations

Conversations about death emphasise choice, control or dignity. Circle of Wonders offers a quiet corrective, insisting that dying is relational.

18.05.2026 10

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Catherine Mckinnon

James Bradley’s thrilling, unsettling crime novel is set in a flooded Sydney in 2050

Landfall is a haunting and propulsive crime novel, set in 2050s Sydney, that weighs the value of a human life on an ecologically ravaged planet.

28.05.2025 20

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Catherine McKinnon