Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

‘The Kingdom: A Novel’ by Fuminori Nakamura

‘A Burning’ by Megha Majumdar

‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams’ by Richard Flanagan

Introducing Southern Cross Crime Month, March 2021

22 books by women: completing the 2020 Australian Women Writers’ Challenge

My favourite books of 2020

Four Quick Reviews: Elisa Shua Dusapin, Jennifer Johnston, Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina, and Catherine Steadman

‘Our Shadows’ by Gail Jones

‘Bitter Wash Road’ by Garry Disher

‘The Friend’ by Sigrid Nunez

‘Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod’ by Caroline Goode

‘Cold a Long Time: An Alpine Mystery’ by John Leake

‘The Doll Factory’ by Elizabeth MacNeal

Six Degrees of Separation: From ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ to ‘The Tie That Binds’

‘What Are You Going Through’ by Sigrid Nunez

‘The Silence’ by Don DeLillo

Book pairings: fiction & non-fiction titles that complement each other

‘Black Water’ by Joyce Carol Oates

‘This Mournable Body’ by Tsitsi Dangarembga

7 books for NAIDOC week