Australian Fiction Special Features

The Old Lie | Claire G. Coleman | $32.99 | Hachette

Electrifying, original and fearless, The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman is an unforgettable novel with an enormous scope. It’s an anti-colonial, feminist work of science fiction, which addresses the act and ethics of war, immigration and the refugee experience, racism and genocide, nuclear warfare, gender and sexuality, and Indigenous Australian connections to Country. Coleman, author of Terra Nullius, is one of the most exciting and dynamic writers in Australian literature right now. I can’t recommend her and The Old Lie more highly!

ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN WRITERS

Taking Tom Murray Home | Tim Slee | $32.99 | HarperCollins

Winner of the 2018 Banjo Prize, Taking Tom Murray Home is an offbeat charmer. Full of Aussie quirk in the vein

of The Rosie Project or Boy Swallows Universe, this is a clever story with twists in the road and sparking with childlike

curiosity from the thirteen-year-old narrator. A funeral procession led by horse and cart turns into a protest

supporting dairy farmers, as Jack’s family take his father’s coffin from rural Australia along the roads leading to

Melbourne. With dashes of humour to mask the undercurrent of grief and desperation, there is more than meets

the eye here. This is a clever up-lit tale and one you can fall in love with.

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