The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
The Country Girls is the first novel of Irish writer Edna O’Brien and a quintessential coming-of-age story. It was published in 1960 and immediately banned in Ireland and even …
The Narrow Road To The Deep North – Richard Flanagan
I’ve left the short stories alone for a couple of days, while I lost myself in The Narrow Road To The Deep North. Its 467 pages long but …
Captives – Angela Meyer
I’ve finished the fourth draft of my novel and its out with four (mainly friends and family) beta readers over christmas/new year. I’m feeling a bit deflated rather …
The Strays – Emily Bitto
The Strays is Emily Bitto’s much lauded debut about an artist’s colony in 1930s Melbourne. She’s acknowledged that the story was influenced by the Heide circle around John and …
Instructions for a heatwave – Maggie O’Farrell
On a hot July morning during the infamous English heatwave of 1976, Irishman Robert Riordan walks out of the North London home he shares with his wife Gretta and …
