The Luminaries – Eleanor Caton
I’ve had this author-signed copy of The Luminaries, winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize on my bookshelf waiting to be read for a couple of years. At 823 pages long, …
If I knew you were going to be this beautiful, I never would have let you go – Judy Chicurel
This book, with its rather clunky title, is a coming-of-age story set in Elephant Beach, a small town on Long Island, New York in the early 1970s. This is the …
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The Grass Sister – Gillian Mears
Gillian Mears is one of my favourite authors. She has written just a handful of novels. Her first, The Mint Lawn, won the Vogel award in 1990 and is one of …
Forever Young – Steven Carroll
One of the best books I read last year was ‘A World of Other People‘ by Stephen Carroll. Forever Young is the fifth of his Glenroy series, a collection …
Us – David Nicholls
Having read and loved Nicholls’ earlier novels Starter for Ten and One Day, I have been looking forward to reading Us for ages. Us is the story of a family. Douglas is a middle-aged …
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life caused a big stir – shortlisted for the Booker Prize, called astonishing, a masterwork, extraordinary, and so on. You get the picture. But there have been …
Perfidia – James Ellroy
Perfidia is the first novel of James Ellroy’s second LA quartet. The first quartet includes LA Confidential, which along with American Tabloid, are the other two James Ellroy novels I have read. …
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 …
Six Bedrooms – Tegan Bennett Daylight
Six Bedrooms is a collection of 10 short stories about the pain of coming of age. Some are loosely connected to each other via the sad and vulnerable Tasha. I …
On Brunswick Ground – Catherine de Saint Phalle
On Brunswick Ground is a contemporary novel set in Melbourne. It draws on the violent death of journalist Jill Meagher in 2012 to explore the fear that her death evoked in local …
