As the winner of the Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025, I was expecting something rare and raw from Johanna Bell’s latest novel. And that was exactly what I found with Department of the Vanishing. Strange and sad, it is a tale of this time of extinction, broken yet beautiful. Our protagonist, Ava, is surrounded by the...
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