Book Reviews

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Best books of 2024, as chosen by South Australian writers and publishers

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Book review: Twitchers

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Diary of a Book Addict: For the sake of the children

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Book review: Little Bit

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Diary of a Book Addict: What is normal?

Love, war and the birth of Impressionism

Book review: Stories of Futures Near and Far

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Diary of a Book Addict: South Australia’s best books of the 21st century

Praiseworthy makes history as Alexis Wright wins the 2024 Miles Franklin

Diary of a Book Addict: A journey to the edges of the world

Book review: The End and Everything Before It

Diary of a Book Addict: Divorce, desire and dystopia

Diary of a Book Addict: Knotty nuance and unending conflict

Book review: The Radio Hour

Book review: For Everything a Time

Diary of a Book Addict: Humanity in conflict, winning women and ‘magic’ pills

Book review: Shining Like the Sun

Diary of a Book Addict: Love, loss and art in big-city books

Book review: The Rocks Remain

The ‘others’: Striving to find a steady footing on shaky ground

Book review: Always Will Be

Book review: To the River

Book review: We Could Be Something

Diary of a Book Addict: Hot summer reads

Diary of a Book Addict: Eight of the best from 2023

Book review: The Knighton Women’s Compendium

Book review: Royals

Diary of a Book Addict: New novels, menopause, The Fonz… and beyond

Book review: The Idealist

Diary of a Book Addict: Coming to grips with the great divide

Book review: Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures

Diary of a Book Addict: Lives, and crimes, of the times

Book review: Temperance

Book review: The Comforting Weight of Water

Book review: Endo Days

Diary of a Book Addict: Unpicking power and privilege

Diary of a Book Addict: Unpicking power and privilege

Book review: Young Rupert

Shankari Chandran wins the Miles Franklin with a sophisticated take on racism

Diary of a Book Addict: Sad girls and complicated women

Book review: Missing Pieces

Diary of a Book Addict: ‘The problem is not me, it’s you’

Book review: Mr Smith to You

Book review: Stan Grant’s The Queen is Dead

Diary of a Book Addict: Artists and monsters

Diary of a Book Addict: Stories of love, loss and family

Book review: Madukka the River Serpent

Diary of a Book Addict: Children lost – and found