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Memorial Author: Bryan WashingtonPublisher: Atlantic Reading this book takes a little getting used to. Conversations take place but there are no quotation marks (a technique used in the acclaimed book…
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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…
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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…
Book Review – Homeland Elegies
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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
Little Eyes – Book Review
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…
Book Review – The Survivors
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…
Book Review – The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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…
Book Review – My Dark Vanessa –
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…
Book Review – ‘Pretty Things’
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,…
Book Review – Writers & Lovers
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…
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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…
Book Review – The Redhead by the Side of the Road
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…
Book Review – Hamnet
Author: Maggie O’Farrell – Publisher: Tinder Press – Those who have read my reviews will know my book choices lean towards fiction. I like to escape in a good story….
Book Review – Deacon King Kong
Author: James McBride – Publisher: Doubleday – Causeway Housing Projects were built in South Brooklyn in the 40’s to house the Italians that worked on the docks. But its 1969…
Book review – 28 Summers
Author: Elin Hilderbrand – Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton – One of the drawbacks of finishing a book is that I have to find another one to read. This shouldn’t be…
Book review – The Other Passenger
Author: Louise Candlish –Publisher: Simon and Schuster – We meet Jamie on his morning commute on a Thames riverboat a few days after Christmas. As he disembarks, he is stopped…
Book review – The Pull of the Stars
Author: Emma Donohue –Publisher: Picador – I can’t recall how I chose this book. Maybe because the author also wrote Room, which I read a while ago and liked, although…