Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists Edited by Bob Boughton, Danny Blackman, Mike Donaldson, Carmel Shute and Beverley Symons, SEARCH Foundation, 2020.New International Bookshop (www.nibs.org.au). Comrades! comprises stories of 100 rank…
If I Had Your Face Author: Frances ChaPublisher: Penguin If I Had Your Face is the debut novel from Frances Cha about a group of young women who live in…
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – Author: John le Carré – Publisher: Penguin – When John le Carré (aka David Cornwall) passed away back in December there…
Author: Ayad AkhtarPublisher: Tinder Press I hadn’t heard of Ayad Akhtar before reading this book. He is a screenwriter, a novelist and has written award winning plays. He was born…
Saratoga local, Melita Lovett-Sisson, has given up the corporate life to pursue her passion for writing, publishing her second children’s book on January 29.
Wow, No Thank You Author: Samantha Irby –Publisher: Faber & Faber – “I have been stuck with a smelly, actively decaying body that I never asked for,” Irby writes, “and…
A Room Made of Leaves Author: Kate GrenvillePublisher: Text Publishing Much is written about the officers that established the penal colony in Australia, but little is known about their wives….
Monogamy Author: Sue MillerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing This is a story about Annie and Graham. Both had been previously married and were divorced when they met at the launch of Graham’s…
Author: Samanta Schweblin – Publisher: Oneworld – Kentukis are all the rage. “It’s a cell phone with legs.” Keepers buy these gadgets with their camera and speaker enclosed within a…
Author: Ruth Ware –Publisher: Vintage – Snoop is an app that allows people to listen to your music, “Voyeurism for your ears,” is what the company calls it. If you…
Author: Jane Harper – Publisher: Macmillan – We’ve all made mistakes and have regrets. Wish we could undo something from our past. But imagine making a mistake that lead to…
Author: V.E. Schwab – Publisher: Titan Books – I was drawn to this book because I read that it was “in the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife”, which I…
Author: Kate Elizabeth Russell – Publisher: 4th Estate – Vanessa Wye is 32, single, working as a concierge at a hotel in Maine, and it is 2017. She is obsessively…
Author: Janelle Brown –Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson – Nina Ross and her mother Lily, an accomplished con artist, move around a lot. In fact, they stay put for a while,…
Author: Lily King – Publisher: Picador– It is the late 1990s and Casey (or is it Camila) is struggling. She is thirty-one, back in Boston, broke, living in a potting…
Author: Jodi PicoultPublisher: Allen & Unwin Dawn is married to Brian and has a teenage daughter, Meret. They live in Boston. Brian is a professor of physics at Harvard and…
Shuggie Bain – Author: Douglas StuartPublisher: Picador We first meet Hugh (Shuggie) Bain when he is 16 working at a deli counter at a supermarket and living in a tenement…
Author: Anne Tyler – Publisher: Vintage – Micah Mortimer is a tall, slim man with poor posture and scruffy clothes, in his early 40’s and who runs his own tech…
Author: Fredrik Backman – Publisher: Penguin – The very beginning of this book states, “This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots.” I know what an…
Author: Elena Ferrante – Publisher: Europa – This is a coming of age story about Giovanna, a twelve-year-old girl growing up in Naples, the good part of Naples. She lives…