Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

3 page-turning reads by Chip Cheek, Sabine Durrant and Rob Hunter

‘Her Father’s Daughter’ by Alice Pung

‘The Governesses’ by Anne Serre

‘The Ice Palace’ by Tarjei Vesaas

Vicki Laveau-Harvie wins the 2019 Stella Prize

‘Axiomatic’ by Maria Tumarkin

‘The Bridge’ by Enza Gandolfo

Six Degrees of Separation: From ‘How to be Both’ to ‘Moderato Cantabile’

4 books published in 1965

‘Too Much Lip’ by Melissa Lucashenko

‘The Love Department’ by William Trevor

‘Pink Mountain on Locust Island’ by Jamie Marina Lau

‘Howards End’ by E. M. Forster

‘The China Factory’ by Mary Costello

‘Little Gods’ by Jenny Ackland

‘Black Seconds’ by Karin Fossum

The 2019 Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award shortlist

‘Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead’ by Olga Tokarczuk

3 novellas by Nawal El Saadawi, Olivia Laing and Roland Schimmelpfennig

2019 Stella Prize shortlist