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Fiction

Ambition, lies and audio

An entertaining début novel

I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena

by Anthony Lynch
May 2025, no. 475

I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena

Summit Books Australia, $34.99 pb, 269 pp

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Lying and half-truths. Raging ambition. In the lead-up to another Australian federal election, these traits too often define our political class. But they are also germane to I Want Everything – no, not the autobiography of Elon Musk, but an entertaining début novel from Dominic Amerena, which also happens to be the first title under a new Simon & Schuster imprint, Summit Books Australia.

 


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I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena

Summit Books Australia, $34.99 pb, 269 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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