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Just in time for your Christmas shopping: Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick out the best of the best

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

As a non-fiction author dedicated to the ongoing trauma of violent colonialism, I was ineluctably drawn to confronting the same in fiction, <strong>Paul Daley</strong> writes

How can fiction contribute to the “truth” that the Uluru Statement asks us to tell? Allen and Unwin’s answer to that question is, in part

Tim Rowse concludes that Paul Daley’s new novel, inspired by true events in Arnhem Land, is fluent and skilfully paced – but doesn’t risk complicating the critical narrative of our colonial history.