Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

‘The Old Boys’ by William Trevor

‘First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers’ by Loung Ung

‘Song for an Approaching Storm’ by Peter Fröberg Idling

‘The Nowhere Child’ by Christian White

‘The Tall Man’ by Phoebe Locke

‘Cold Spring Harbor’ by Richard Yates

‘Whitefly’ by Abdelilah Hamdouchi

‘Take Me In’ by Sabine Durrant

‘Eggshells’ by Caitriona Lally

‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ by Ursula K Le Guin

‘Of Love and Hunger’ by Julian Maclaren-Ross

‘Scrublands’ by Chris Hammer

19 books by women: completing the 2018 Australian Women Writers’ Challenge

My favourite books of 2018

Five Fast Reviews: Eric Dupont, Thea Lim, Alex Miller, Nuala O’Connor and Mercè Rodoreda

‘Heartburn’ by Nora Ephron

‘The Lost Man’ by Jane Harper

The 2018 Shadow Giller Prize winner

‘French Exit’ by Patrick deWitt

‘The Donor’ by Helen FitzGerald