Gulliver’s Wife (2020), by Lauren Chater
If anything in this review raises issues for you, help is available at Beyond Blue, or at White Ribbon Australia or your local support service. I made space for three books on my Australian shelf A-D...
View ArticleNow We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018), by Andrew Miller
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free is my first online review of a novel by English author Andrew Miller, but it’s not the first I’ve read. I was impressed by the thoughtful treatment of complex issues in...
View ArticleThe Secrets We Kept (2019), by Lara Prescott
What, I wonder, does a reputable book publisher like Knopf do, when they’ve paid $2million in a bidding war for a novel that turns out to be lame? I’m guessing that they spend *a lot* of money on an...
View ArticleNora, a Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce (2021), by Nuala O’Connor
This is just a quick review because I am a bit preoccupied with rescuing some data from a trial software program before I lose access to it. (Because #LongBoringStory I am not going to pay for it all...
View ArticlePrague Spring (2018), by Simon Mawer
Although I have a tempting pile of new Australian releases waiting for me, I’m continuing my holiday reading from the TBR, with an added reason to take up Simon Mawer’s Prague Spring from 2018, because...
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