Walkaway review:Cory Doctorow's science fiction crammed with ideas

Walkaway review:Cory Doctorow's science fiction crammed with ideas

The real point of Cory Doctorow's Walkaway isn't the plot or the explosions,it's the ideas that burst from every page.

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Krissy Kneen's latest novel,An Uncertain Grace,is ambitious and her best yet.

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The White Boy Shuffle review:Booker winner Paul Beatty's fierce and funny debut

Paul Beatty takes aim at both the oblivious privilege of white America,and the destructiveness of aspects of African-American culture.

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Margo Lanagan's fantasy stories imagine macabre clowns and skewed fairytales

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The Sydney author's elegantly written stories put a darkly macabre spin on fairytales.

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The 2017 Best Young Australian Novelists

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Sydney Writers'Festival:nasty women Chris Kraus,Viola Di Grado and Brit Bennett take centre stage

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Testing may damage children's love of reading:authors Lauren Child,Kate DiCamillo

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