Book reviews of mainly modern & contemporary fiction

‘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

A Western Australian reading list: introducing a focus on Western Australian writers

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