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Bri Lee’s and Louise Milligan’s predictable first novels combine noughties feminist politics with the swagger of 80s bonkbusters

The debut novels of two forceful, intelligent journalists are bold, brash stories of powerful women at the top of their game. One details a horrific...

15.04.2024 10

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Liz Evans

Suffragettes resurrected, maternal ambivalence and toxic teens: two Australian novels impress, but one overpromises

Earlier this year, I spent a day immersed in the second wave of British feminism at Tate Britain’s Women In Revolt: Art and Activism in the UK...

26.03.2024 9

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I’ve had enough of Sad Bad Girl novels and sensationalised trauma – but I’m hungry for complex stories about women

Stories about flawed young women have been favoured by the publishing industry for some time now. Bad Girl novels proliferated in the wake of Gone...

07.11.2023 7

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A memoir of sleeplessness posits making peace with our ruptured nights – but risks becoming an exhausting read

My relationship with sleep is fraught. For me, the journey towards sleep is a precarious one, relying on a shifting portfolio of mental states, and an...

12.09.2023 9

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Girlhood misery, bullying and beauty combine for Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s ‘unlikeable’ west-coast  girls

With the post-menopausal generation reappraising what it means to be an older woman, the sheen of youth has become exposed. Women are told to fear the...

10.09.2023 6

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