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 …
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 …
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 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 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 …
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, …
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 …
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