Anna Spargo-Ryan
The AU Review’s Top Ten Books of 2017
- January 8, 2018
- Books
- Features
- ABC Books
- Anna Spargo-Ryan
- Being Here
- David Free
- Detours
- Down the Hume
- Get Poor Slow
- Hachette Australia
- HarperCollins Australia
- Homegoing
- Jennifer Egan
- Manhattan Beach
- Marie Darrieussecq
- Melanie Raabe
- Millefiori
- Omar Musa
- Pan MacMillan
- Penguin
- Peter Polites
- Text Publishing
- The Good Girl Stripped Bare
- The Gulf
- The Stranger
- Tim Rogers
- Tracey Spicer
- Yaa Gyasi
Happy New Year everyone. Now we’ve packed away the Christmas decorations and finished the last of the festive treats, we in the book review team at the AU thought it’d be a good time to look back at some of our favourite books of the last year. A veritable smorgasbord of great books were released…
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