Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

‘Home Fire’ by Kamila Shamsie

26 books by women: completing the 2019 Australian Women Writers’ Challenge

My favourite books of 2019

‘Beauty’ by Bri Lee

‘Shadowplay’ by Joseph O’Connor

‘A Sport and a Pastime’ by James Salter

‘Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume 1, 1978–1987’ by Helen Garner

‘The Dead Heart’ by Douglas Kennedy

‘October is the Coldest Month’ by Christoffer Carlsson

12 books on the International Dublin Literary Award longlist 2020

5 Fast Reviews: Michelle de Kretser, Nikki Gemmell, Catherine Jinks, Meg Mundell and Heather Rose

‘The Weekend’ by Charlotte Wood

‘Spinifex & Sunflowers’ by Avan Judd Stallard

‘The Offing’ by Benjamin Myers

‘One Hundred Years of Dirt’ by Rick Morton

20 books of summer 2019 recap

6 highly anticipated Australian novels I can’t wait to read

‘No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison’ by Behrouz Boochani

‘The Moon and Sixpence’ by W. Somerset Maugham

‘Cusp’ by Josephine Wilson