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Goodbye, My Love by Yumna Kassab review – biting reflections on the dissolution of a marriage

This novel told in vignettes and poetic fragments follows a woman who discovers that choice does not always equate to agency

The Guardian - AU · May 7

Best Australian books out in May: Robert Forster’s crime caper, a ‘superb’ new novel and Periodic Bitch

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU · May 6

Manifesto, theory, rant: Yumna Kassab’s ‘post-novels’ have a bit of everything

Yumna Kassab’s new book, The Theory of Everything, is not a typical novel. It is, its blurb declares, “a fictional theory, a rant, a manifesto […] five mini-novels or else five post-novels”.

The Conversation · Mar 27, 2025

Miles Franklin 2023: a guide to the shortlist of Australia’s biggest literary prize

Six authors are in the running for Australia’s most prestigious book award, which will be announced on Tuesday. Here’s your primer

The Guardian - AU · Jul 24, 2023

Queer disobedience and uncomfortable truths: your guide to the 2023 Miles Franklin shortlist

This year’s Miles Franklin shortlist takes us from Sydney’s criminal underclass in the 1930s and the quiet waters of rural Tasmania in the 1940s to shopping for design objects in contemporary Japan.

The Conversation · Jul 24, 2023

Miles Franklin award 2023: shortlist revealed for Australia’s prestigious literary prize

Five first-time nominees are among the six authors competing for $60,000 award for novels that ‘present Australian life in any of its phases’

The Guardian - AU · Jun 19, 2023

Tale of new Australia in Miles Franklin shortlist debut

First-time author Kgshak Akec has made the Miles Franklin shortlist with a "novel of national significance" grounded in her own experience as a new Australian.

AAP · Jun 19, 2023

Colonial and nationalist myths are recast in Yumna Kassab's Australiana

Yumna Kassab’s Australiana: A Novel is mostly set in an unnamed regional town, likely Tamworth, in northern NSW and in other nearby locations like Barraba, Uralla and the Pilliga. It tells of the lives of ordinary people, their relationships with the land and homes in which they dwell, the objects…

The Conversation · Apr 13, 2022