Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

The 2020 Kerry Group Novel of the Year Winner

‘Exploded View’ by Carrie Tiffany

‘The River Capture’ by Mary Costello

‘Girl’ by Edna O’Brien

‘Bowraville’ by Dan Box

The 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award longlist

The 2020 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award shortlist

‘The Animals in that Country’ by Laura Jean McKay

8 uplifting reads

Six Degrees of Separation: From ‘The Road’ to ‘Twins’

‘Redhead by the Side of the Road’ by Anne Tyler

‘Fortune’s Rocks’ by Anita Shreve

‘The Butchers’ by Ruth Gilligan

‘Night Boat to Tangier’ by Kevin Barry

‘Anna’ by Niccolò Ammaniti

17 intriguing novellas you can read in a day (or an afternoon)

‘The Good Son’ by You-Jeong Jeong

5 fast reviews: Anne Enright, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Yukio Mishima, Bruce Pascoe & Tara June Winch

‘There was Still Love’ by Favel Parrett

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