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Document Z by Andrew Croome

I started blogging this in DJs restaurant, because I couldn’t resist showing off after Telstra installed one of those little USB internet connection things that means I can use my netbook anywhere....

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Night Street, by Kristel Thornell

I know we should all try to be content with the gifts we have but I do wish I had just a little artistic skill.  One of my  friends carries a small sketching diary as she travels and her tiny drawings...

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2011 Vogel winner is Rohan Wilson (The Roving Party)

Well, now we know we’re really in the 21st century!  Tonight Rohan Wilson was awarded the 2011 Vogel prize for his novel The Roving Party – and not only can you download the first chapter to read from...

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Sensational Snippets: The Roving Party, by Rohan Wilson

Now that I’m half way through this book, I am not at all surprised that Rohan Wilson won the 2011 Vogel Award for The Roving Party. It is breathtaking! This is the publisher’s blurb: 1829, Tasmania....

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The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson

My first response, when I started reading The Roving Party was to realise that I knew nothing about Tasmanian Aborigines except that no full-blood Aboriginal people from this part of Australia survived...

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Utopian Man by Lisa Lang

I romped through this book in a just a few hours and as a work of light fiction I enjoyed it.  Utopian Man weaves its way into the mind as if the ideas within were memory rather than the author’s...

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Floundering, by Romy Ash

I couldn’t find much online about Romy Ash’s debut novel Floundering, so it’s a pity I have to take issue with Tony Birch’s 2012 interview with the author. He comments that Floundering is a novel...

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After Darkness, by Christine Piper (2014 Vogel winner)

Stephen Romei, in the blurb on the back of this award-winning novel, says that it deserves a place alongside Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Mark Dapin’s Spirit House – and I...

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The Velodrome, by Liam Davison

It’s a sad thing to discover an Aussie author’s work only because he was killed in an atrocity, (see Vale Liam Davison) but it has been a delight to read his first novel.  Actually it’s a novella, of...

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When There’s Nowhere Else to Run, by Murray Middleton

I usually try to keep up with the Vogel Prize, because it’s been a great predictor of fine writing over the years, with winners like Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Gillian Mears and Brian Castro, and more...

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2016 Vogel Award

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award is Australia’s richest and most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript by a writer under the age of 35.  The winner receives $20,000 and – more importantly...

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The Memory Artist, by Katherine Brabon (Vogel winner 2016)

This year’s Vogel Award winner, The Memory Artist is a departure from the kind of Australian themed books that we have become used to with this prize.  Recently the award has brought us some really...

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An Accidental Terrorist, by Steven Lang

I am on a roll, as they say.  My last three books have all been great reading, and interesting to me is that all three – The Custodians; Haxby’s Circus and now An Accidental Terrorist  are from the...

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The Lost Pages, by Marija Peričić (Vogel winner 2017)

While I do enjoy the sense of belonging that comes with reading novels that feature Australian life, I like the direction the Vogel Prize seems to have taken over the last year or so.  Last year we had...

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The Yellow House, by Emily O’Grady (2018 Vogel winner)

I am mystified by the preoccupation with crime that fills TV screens and bookshelves around the country.  We live in one of the safest countries in the world and yet if popular taste is anything to go...

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K.M. Kruimink wins the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award 2020

Last year, to some discontent, there was no winner of the 2019 Vogel Literary Award, the annual prize awarded to an author under the age of thirty-five since its inception in 1980.  The Vogel, as it is...

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A Treacherous Country, by K.M. Kruimink (2020 Vogel Winner)

A Treacherous Country is this year’s winner of the Vogel Award for an unpublished manuscript, and it’s a promising debut for its author K M (Kate) Kruimink. This is the blurb: Gabriel Fox, the young...

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Now That I See You, by Emma Batchelor (2021 Vogel winner)

If anything in this review raises issues for you, help is available at Beyond Blue. Sometimes, when we enter into a relationship, we don’t really understand that it will change us in ways we didn’t...

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A Place Near Eden, by Nell Pierce (2022 Vogel winner)

A Place Near Eden is one of those books so cunningly constructed that at the end you have no idea whether the narrator is a victim who has been wickedly manipulated or a sociopath leading the hapless...

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