Tag: Issue Nine Reviews
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Book Review: The Adversary by Ronnie Scott
By Tom Van Essen Reading Ronnie Scott’s (of The Listed Brow esteem) debut novel ‘The Adversary’ struck me with its wistful immediacy. A kind of sentimentality that made me simultaneously longing and repellent for my days of inner-city sharehouse living, in all its messy, hellish finitude. Yet, it was the complicated politics of gay friendship…
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Book Review: The Nancys by Rob McDonald
Reviewed by Taylor Donlon ‘Don’t tell your mother. She’ll kill me!’ Rob McDonald is an author from New Zealand, currently living in Melbourne. His 2019 debut adult crime novel, The Nancys, is a classic whodunnit murder mystery with a twist – and the twist is the eccentric characters who bring a bit of sparkle…