Susan Francis
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Book review: The Sorrow Stone, Kári Gíslason
An historical fiction set in Iceland is rich with detail about societal and cultural mores.

Book review: The Shortest History of Democracy, John Keane
A solid attempt to make sense of what's happening on the local and international political stage.

Book review: Walking Through Honey, Brian Sherman
Despite fame and fortune, a philanthropists reveals the levelling effects of illness.

Book review: Hard Knocks, edited by Fiona Scott-Norman
I get knocked down, I get up again: stories of bullying in schools.

Book review: Mission, Noel Pearson
Reflections of a life-long interrogation of black and white politics.

Book review: Last Letter to a Reader, Gerald Murnane
Murnane delivers a 'constellation of ideas' in this collection of essays.