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Best of all, though, is the gripping story.... This wonderful new author unerringly explores the social consequences, and the strains between fliers and non-fliers.

I'm very excited that Amanda Lohrey's fine collection of short stories, Reading Madame Bovary, has won the Fiction Book Award and Australian Short Story Collection Award in the Queensland Premier's…

When We Have Wings Claire Corbett ★★★★★★ A wonderfully imagined speculative fiction set in a world where human flight has become possible .... Poignant, beautiful and achingly human, this story is…

The descriptions of flight are written in language so assured and masterly that it’s easy to suspend disbelief and be taken on the journey into the clouds with the flyers... ...compelling in every…

The descriptions of flight are written in language so assured and masterly that it’s easy to suspend disbelief and be taken on the journey into the clouds with the flyers... ...compelling in every…

With amazingly vivid imagery and a cast of characters you can't help but care for, this absorbing story will have you dreaming of flight while simultaneously questioning the ethics, morals and…

...a brilliant and original story that is perfectly realised. But the very best part of the book is the description of flight. I really can't stress enough how real it feels, I could see everything…

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A thought-provoking flight of fantasy.

"Corbett's prose has the clarity, luminosity and beauty of a well-cut diamond, especially when she describes dreamlike aerial visions. When We Have Wings is a confident and challenging debut; this…