y separately published work icon Brisbane Times newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 17 June 2016 of Brisbane Times est. 2016 Brisbane Times
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Healing Party Review : Micheline Lee's Exquisitely Rendered Debut Novel, Michael McGirr , single work review
— Review of The Healing Party Micheline Lee , 2016 single work novel ;
'As soon as she finished school, Natasha Chan ran away to Darwin. Eight years later, she is summoned back to Melbourne by her eldest sister, Anita. Natasha returns to the very street from which she had fled because her mother, Irene, is dying of cancer. For the next few months, she will try to build some kind of bridge to Irene, a woman with whom she has longed to be able to connect. ...'
The Memory Artist Review : Katherine Brabon's Profound Vogel-winning Novel, Claire Scobie , single work review
— Review of The Memory Artist Katherine Brabon , 2016 single work novel ;
The Memory Artist opens in 1999 when the narrator, Pasha, a young Russian writer, hears his mother has died. Pasha is a child of dissidents who grew up in Moscow amid secret gatherings as his mother and her friends campaigned for the release of political prisoners during the Brezhnev era. During his childhood the "shiny mint-green Latvian radio" on the kitchen table, with its broadcasts from the BBC or Voice of America, was a beacon in an otherwise grey world. ...'
Through a Camel's Eye Review : Skulduggery and Camel Stealing in Seaside Victoria, Kerryn Goldsworthy , single work review
— Review of Through a Camel's Eye Dorothy Johnston , 2015 single work novel ;
'This police procedural is the only novel about a stolen camel that I have ever read. But the camel plot is intertwined with a darker mystery: the story of a woman whose battered body is washed loose in heavy rains from its shallow riverbank grave. The characters of the two police officers working as a team are convincing enough and the plot more or less works, but the writing is curiously flat, and many of the minor characters are stereotypes. ...'
X