Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

‘The Last of Her Kind’ by Sigrid Nunez

2020 Stella Prize longlist

‘The Temple House Vanishing’ by Rachel Donohue

‘Twins’ by Dirk Kurbjuweit

‘Two Sisters: Ngarta and Jukuna’ by Ngarta Jinny Bent, Jukuna Mona Chuguna, Pat Lowe & Eirlys Richards

‘Madonna in a Fur Coat’ by Sabahattin Ali

‘Second Sight’ by Aoife Clifford

‘The Book of Fame’ by Lloyd Jones

‘Maybe the Horse Will Talk’ by Elliot Perlman

13 books by Jennifer Johnston

‘Home Fire’ by Kamila Shamsie

26 books by women: completing the 2019 Australian Women Writers’ Challenge

My favourite books of 2019

‘Beauty’ by Bri Lee

‘Shadowplay’ by Joseph O’Connor

‘A Sport and a Pastime’ by James Salter

‘Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume 1, 1978–1987’ by Helen Garner

‘The Dead Heart’ by Douglas Kennedy

‘October is the Coldest Month’ by Christoffer Carlsson

12 books on the International Dublin Literary Award longlist 2020