Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

20 books of summer 2019 recap

6 highly anticipated Australian novels I can’t wait to read

‘No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison’ by Behrouz Boochani

‘The Moon and Sixpence’ by W. Somerset Maugham

‘Cusp’ by Josephine Wilson

A Western Australian reading list: introducing a focus on Western Australian writers

8 great novels written in the second person

‘The Good Soldier’ by Ford Madox Ford

‘Fake’ by Stephanie Wood

‘The Château’ by William Maxwell

‘Last Stories’ by William Trevor

‘A Constant Hum’ by Alice Bishop

‘The Vegetarian’ by Han Kang

10 favourite Australian novels of the 21st century

10 of my favourite books by women writers in translation

‘The Death of Murat Idrissi’ by Tommy Wieringa

‘Stories of Perth’ edited by Alice Grundy

‘The Debt to Pleasure’ by John Lanchester

‘See What I Have Done’ by Sarah Schmidt

‘The White Girl’ by Tony Birch