Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

The 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist

‘A Long Way from Home’ by Peter Carey

‘Storyland’ by Catherine McKinnon

‘The Well’ by Elizabeth Jolley

‘Good Me Bad Me’ by Ali Land

‘When Breath Becomes Air’ by Paul Kalanithi

‘Pieces of a Girl’ by Charlotte Wood

20 books of summer — 2018 edition

‘Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen’ by Mary Norris

The 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist

‘The End We Start From’ by Megan Hunter

‘My Mother, A Serial Killer’ by Hazel Baron and Janet Fife-Yeomans

‘Moderato Cantabile’ by Marguerite Duras

‘Travelling in a Strange Land’ by David Park

‘The Boy in the Earth’ by Fuminori Nakamura

‘The Sound of my Voice’ by Ron Butlin

‘When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife’ by Meena Kandasamy

‘Too Afraid to Cry’ by Ali Cobby Eckermann

‘The Painted Veil’ by W. Somerset Maugham

‘The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage’ by Anja Reich-Osang