This is an unsentimental work full of violence but anchored by deep love and commitment that is all the more powerful for its simple existence and unwavering certainty.… Continue reading Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
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Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse
Here’s a little anecdote … Frank Moorhouse and his girlfriend were lying naked in their back garden drinking wine and soaking up sunshine when the writer threw aside the book he’d been reading and exclaimed: ‘My God. Oh my God. Copyright is the key to all understanding. If you understand copyright theory, you understand the… Continue reading Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The writing is luscious, and sometimes you need to re-read aloud a line, a paragraph, just to wallow in the words, to delight in the feel of them in your mouth; and since we read for pleasure – like we listen to music – there’s no need to engage the memory, this is a book for reading again.… Continue reading The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus (2003) is the story seen through the eyes of a young girl, Kambili (KAM bi lee) of a small Nigerian family, her older brother, Jaja, Mama, and her wealthy and very Christian Papa, told in deceptively simple English.… Continue reading Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale
Patrick Gale’s literary strength is families, their function or disfunction, coping with disasters, or not, or just getting through each day to the next. His 2009 novel, The Whole Day Through is no exception. However, its structure is a little different in that the action takes place over one single day. This also means that… Continue reading The Whole Day Through by Patrick Gale
The Boat by Nam Le
If Le writes nothing ever again what he has written here will cement his name in Australian literature as a voice to be honoured.… Continue reading The Boat by Nam Le
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
It’s a story of decimated domesticity; a portrait of just how shit-awful human beings can treat the ones they’re supposed to love, and told in vivid, often startling language… Continue reading Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Gulliver’s Travels (working title) by Michael K Freundt. A work in progress.
After sex years I’ve finally finished the first draft. I’m letting it rest for a while. Here is the Prelude and the first three chapters … a teaser. Prelude If you ask a family member – of any family – if they are happy, they would invariably pause, not wanting to simply say “yes”, and… Continue reading Gulliver’s Travels (working title) by Michael K Freundt. A work in progress.
Life & Times of Michael K by J M Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize twice: for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983, and for Disgrace in 1999. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. Life & Times of Michael K is a short novel in three untitled chapters: a long one, a short one, and an even shorter… Continue reading Life & Times of Michael K by J M Coetzee
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Every tone of voice, every possible meaning of words spoken, every possible meaning of words unspoken, the way they dress, walk, cry, smile, serve the pasta, look, and stand; all are analysed by Elena, the first-person narrator, in her attempt to understand what’s going on. It’s a Brugel-esque landscape of feelings colouring the lives of the Neapolitan working class in the 1960s and all seen through the eyes of Elena Greco -“always fearful, always subordinate, always pleasingly willing”, the unmarried, bookish one with glasses.… Continue reading The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Michael K Freundt 