Me and Mr Booker – Cory Taylor
Me and Mr Booker is Taylor’s debut novel and winner of the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. It is a coming of age story told in first person by Martha, a 16 year old …
Summer’s Gone – Charles Hall
I’ve been promising myself I’ll read more widely but yet again, I’ve been diverted by a new book closely related to the book I’m writing. In the case of Summer’s …
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 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 …
The Rehearsal – Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton is now much more famous for her Booker winning The Luminaries, than this, her first novel. But I chose to start with this one because its a debut, …
A Summer Bird-Cage – Margaret Drabble
I’ve been a Margaret Drabble fan since I was dragged kicking and screaming to her in Year 12 English by way of The Millstone. Its a fantastic book and I’ve …
