Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

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

‘The Impostor’ by Damon Galgut

‘The Night Book’ by Charlotte Grimshaw

‘Room for a Stranger’ by Melanie Cheng

‘Where You Once Belonged’ by Kent Haruf

‘The Lebs’ by Michael Mohammed Ahmad

‘The Van Apfel Girls are Gone’ by Felicity McLean