![]() This is a realist work with allusions to Rapunzel’s witch and tower. Carol Lefevre expands her feminist and ageist concerns in the Christina Stead Prize-shortlisted Murmurations to The Tower, a book of linked short stories. ![]() Limberlost is the tale of a boy who finds a discarded boat on a Tasmanian property that promises freedom and perhaps a way back to the whale. A mythologised whale anchors Limberlost by Robbie Arnott, the trail-blazing author of surrealist eco-fables Flames and The Rain Heron. ![]() Gods seem to materialise from the sky in The Sun Walks Down, a chronicle of a lost child in the Flinders Ranges in 1883 by Fiona McFarlane, awarded author of The Night Guest and The High Places. At the heart of each of these timely Australian literary works is a potent symbol from myth or fairy tale. ![]()
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