Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

2021 Stella Prize longlist

‘Ash Mountain’ by Helen Fitzgerald

‘From Where I Fell’ by Susan Johnson

‘Death Leaves the Station’ by Alexander Thorpe

Southern Cross Crime Month is coming!

‘The Memory Police’ by Yoko Ogawa

‘Honeybee’ by Craig Silvey

‘Bobbin Up’ by Dorothy Hewett

‘The Aosawa Murders’ by Riku Onda

Six Degrees of Separation: From ‘Redhead by the Side of the Road’ to ‘Song for an Approaching Storm’

‘The Kingdom: A Novel’ by Fuminori Nakamura

‘A Burning’ by Megha Majumdar

‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams’ by Richard Flanagan

Introducing Southern Cross Crime Month, March 2021

22 books by women: completing the 2020 Australian Women Writers’ Challenge

My favourite books of 2020

Four Quick Reviews: Elisa Shua Dusapin, Jennifer Johnston, Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina, and Catherine Steadman

‘Our Shadows’ by Gail Jones

‘Bitter Wash Road’ by Garry Disher

‘The Friend’ by Sigrid Nunez