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The Best Australian Stories: A Ten-Year Collection by Ryan O’Neill, Dorothy Johnston, Emily Ballou, Joan London, Cate Kennedy, Luke Davies, Liam Davison, Anna Krien, Kate Grenville, Peter Goldsworthy, Gillian Mears, Sonya Hartnett, Marion Halligan, Murray Bail, Frank Moorhouse, Patrick Cullen, Jessica Anderson, Black Inc., Tara June Winch, Steven Amsterdam, Nam Le, Janette Turner Hospital, Mandy Sayer, Tim Winton, Campbell Mattinson, Michael Meehan, Nicholas Shakespeare, Tim Richards, Amanda Lohrey, Eva Hornung, Robert Drewe, Delia Falconer, Gerald Murnane, Will Elliott, Chloe Walker, Paddy O’Reilly, Karen Hitchcock, Tom Cho

essjay1's review

4.0

Published in 2011. Some great stories in this collection - I enjoyed Cloud Busting by Tara June Winch, Reading Madame Bovary by Amanda Lohrey, The New Dark age by Joan London about surviving cancer, The Intimacy of the Table by Delia Falconer. Aquifer by Tim Winton, Mate by Kate Grenville and The Meaning of Life by Mandy Sayer. Also Murray Bail’s Camouflage & Nam Le’s story about his father, Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice.

satelliteheart's review

3.0

I borrowed this book simply to read Luke Davies' short story (which individually I'd give 3.5 stars, similarities to 'god of Speed') and I read a few of the others and tried to get into more but they just weren't my thing so, I'm cheating a little saying I finished it but I did read what I set out to read from it!