Terra Nullius
Hachette, $29.99 pb, 304 pp, 9780733638312
Fiction
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman
by Catherine Noske •
It is hard to review a novel when you don’t want to discuss two-thirds of it – not because it is not worth discussing, but because doing so risks undermining the genius of the novel’s structure. The blurb of Claire G. Coleman’s début makes clear that the novel is ‘not [about] the Australia of our history’, but for the first third of the novel, this is not readily apparent.
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