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from yarra book club rated it five stars at goodreads and you can read her thoughts here l l ight over liskeard 2023 by louis de bernières by complete coincidence the introduction to my review is almost word for word what happened this week when there was a telstra outage only this was worse because all the regional trains stopped running as well so that people had to wait in near freezing temperatures for replacement buses de bernières novel didn t seem so speculative back then in 2023 and despite all the promises made in 2023 it doesn t seem so speculative now when we are all so dependent on the internet then again maybe q s idyll doesn t seem so farfetched as life in the cities gets more complicated and our systems of electronic control begin to fall apart q flourishes in the wild cornish countryside his new way of life brings him back in tune with his teenage children his ex wife and his own sense of who he is he also grows close to eva energetic and enchanting who is committed to her own quest for love and meaning y fundamentally 2025 by nussaibah y ounis i had to check with google to see if this novel about a british deradicalisation program for isis brides was speculative fiction to meet my criteria it seems that it is because for reasons i can t imagine deradicalisation programs take place after repatriation not in the refugee camps where they might begin to solve a problem fundamentally was one of my favourites from the longlist for the 2025 women s prize for fiction it is both heartbreaking and hilarious who would have thought that we might be chuckling over a dark comedy about the deradicalisation of isis brides marooned in a middle eastern refugee camp the book blurb has this to say a bitingly original wildly funny and razor sharp exploration of love family religion and the decisions we make in pursuit of belonging fundamentally upends and explores a defining controversy of our age with heart complexity and humour i wonder if anybody is writing a novel about australia s recently repatriated isis brides next month august two u s that ll be a challenge too share this share on bluesky opens in new window bluesky share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on mastodon opens in new window mastodon share on threads opens in new window threads share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading 2026 australian jewish writer awards shortlists july 10 2026 lisa hill leave a comment the 2026 australian jewish writer awards shortlists have been announced the winners will be announced on the 3rd of august at the festival of the spoken word presented by sydney jewish writers festival the first thing i looked for was the fiction shortlist but they don t have one there is a prize the szymon simon klitenik award for jewish fiction is worth 5 000 prize to the winner but the winner is announced at the awards ceremony it can be a novel or a collection of short stories the 2025 winner was linda margolin royal for the star on the grave 2024 see my review so who might be eligible for this fiction prize for obvious reasons not every jewish writer identifies publicly as such and although i ve read 37 books published in 2025 and three of those were fiction by jewish authors maybe there are more in contention for this prize that i don t know about we ll just have to wait and see meanwhile i was pleased to see that ruptured one of my two anz litlovers non fiction books of the year has been been nominated for the leslie and sophie caplan award for jewish non fiction the shortlist is ferryman the life and deathwork of ephraim finch by katia ariel all consuming germans jews and the meaning of meat by john m efron the holy and the broken by ittay flescher ruptured jewish women in australia reflect on life post october 7 edited by lee kofman and tamar paluch see my review michael gawenda won the 2025 nf award for my life as a jew which impressed the spouse when he read it last year among those nominated for the bobby adler award for young jewish writers is merav fima for late blossoms see my review anna jacobson for all rage blaze light and shaina rother for t hey found paradise retracing the jewish history of australia s gold coast past winners were ellie bouhadana for ellie s table food from memory and food from home in 2025 and in 2024 anna jacobson for her poetry collection anxious in a sweet store 2023 see my review the poetry shortlist includes i never knew a song could be a knife by jessica chapnik kahn the copper pots by marcelle freiman sleep school by leah kaminsky i have reviewed two of her novels here travelling to jerusalem by michael leibowitz ashlonak by sarah sassoon and koldre by gadia zrihan see j wire for nominees in the playwright category thanks to the shalom collective for sharing the news on their 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