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Gone Guru by Nadine Browne review â a clever and funny metafictional caper (opens the original)
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This debut novel follows a 38-year-old whose flatmate goes missing at the same time as her memoir manuscript is being torn apart by her classmates Nadine Browneâs debut novel carries a dedication to a man called Danny Kronenfeld, who died in 2019. A few chapters in, we meet an elderly retired social worker named Danny Kronfeld. Weâre in the hands of Noni, a âjaded thirty-eight-year-oldâ from Western Australia who has relocated to New York to undertake a master of fine arts at New York Un
Best Australian books out in September: a Big Little Lies sequel, Keatingâs vision and âsuperagersâ (opens the original)
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Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured â or canât wait to get their hands on Noni, the narrator of Nadine Browneâs debut novel, has just arrived in New York to complete an MFA program. Things arenât going well. Her memoir-in-progress has been pilloried by the NYU crowd and her flatmate Vincent has disappeared, along with all her rent. Noni needs to find Vincent and figure out a new writing project. Can she pull it off? Can she solve
Blue Giant by Jordan Prosser review â would life be better on Mars? (opens the original)
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Melancholy and humour pierce Prosserâs second novel, which swings in zany directions as its fabulous central character tries to escape the shitshows of 21st-century life Do you have what it takes to survive on Mars? Abby Horne, the protagonist of Jordan Prosserâs second novel, Blue Giant, is certain that she has the chops. When an egocentric tech billionaire named Tor Skovgaard invites volunteers to join a mission to Mars, a ânew chapter in the history of human civilisationâ, Abby thinks
Mine by Adam Ouston review â novel told in a single sentence is a hallucinatory reading experience (opens the original)
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Oustonâs second novel follows a poet who is trapped in an abandoned mine in Tasmania while searching for inspiration for his âlast great workâ The ideal way to approach Mine, Adam Oustonâs second novel, might be to read it out loud in one exhausting sitting, to let its cadences roll and accumulate. This is a novel that consists of one long sentence, and thousands of clauses, digressions, conjunctions, modifications and clarifications. There is nowhere for the reader to rest. To read Mine
I Made This Just For You by Chris Ames review â absurd satirical takes on the bleak absurdity of modern life (opens the original)
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These playful and experimental short stories are set in a distorted but plausible version of our deeply online world â but tenderness is never far Sinkholes open up all over Melbourne in one of the standout stories in Chris Amesâ funny and absurd debut collection, I Made This Just For You. Alison, the disaffected narrator of That Is Not A Cat, finds one in her back yard, âsmall as a beach ball but with a devouring abyss that yawns on foreverâ. Late one night, she confides in it: âI don
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