Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

Six Degrees of Separation: From ‘Stasiland’ to ‘The Other Side of You’

‘The Divine Wind’ by Garry Disher

‘Nemesis’ by Philip Roth

‘Here are the Young Men’ by Rob Doyle

3 books by Western Australian women writers: Madelaine Dickie, Michelle Johnston and Emily Paull

‘Lost Paradise’ by Cees Nooteboom

16 books for 16 years of blogging

‘Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays’ by Janet Malcolm

‘Blood Wedding’ by Pierre Lemaitre

‘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