A review by essjay1
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

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.