The Eighth Life (for Brilka) by Nino Haratischvili
The Eighth Life (for Brilka), by Nino Haratischvili, is 933 pages long (do not allow this to discourage you). This page count is only the…
General Fiction
The Dressmaker’s Secret by Rosalie Ham
Whilst this reader felt a follow up to The Dressmaker was not required (the ending being satisfactory enough and the heroine riding off into the…
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan has the soul of a poet and it is reflected in the prose of The Living Sea of Waking Dreams. His use of…
The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson
The Glad Shout by Alice Robinson is a slap-in-the-face call to curb our excesses before the earth says “enough” and turns on us; and it’s…
All among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
All Among the Barley may be set on a Sussex farm in 1933, but the book explores a lot more than mere nostalgia for bygone…
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
In The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, Jude, Wendy, Adele and Sylvie have been friends for over forty years, since their shared days in Oxford. Now…
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
When his mother is sent to gaol, and his stepfather ‘disappears’, Eli and Gus are sent to live with a father they have never…
The Year of the Farmer by Rosalie Ham
The Year of the Farmer is the meatiest of Rosalie Ham’s output to date
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrick Backman
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrick Backman is a beautiful novella. It’s beautiful to look at and it’s beautiful…
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
What a strange little book Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata is! How to best describe it? Keiko is 36 years old, and has worked all…
Ladies in Black by Madeleine St John
This 2018 re-release of Ladies in Black by Madeleine St John commences with a gently humorous introduction by Bruce Beresford,