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 …
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 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. …
I look forward to the Sydney Writers’ Festival every year, eagerly scanning the program for my favourite writers and the topics that hook me. For me, the festival is about …
Lolita is one of the four books that my novel workshopping teacher says all writers should read (the other three are The Old Man And The Sea, A Day In The Life …
How I do love holidays, for all the time I have to read! I took on some big tomes over the break, one of which was Rachel Kushner’s second novel, The …
I read this book in the name of researching my own novel. It was one of many books banned for sale in Australia when it was published in 1963. Arthur …
We are constantly told in Western countries that our populations are expanding, at the waist, that is. Its getting to the point in countries like Australia that there’s more people …
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