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 …
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 …
It’s1970 and sisters Marlo and Skip have been shipped off to live with their Aunty Noreen Puce in the South Australian town of Craters Lakes, after their mother is …
Barracuda, Christos Tsiolkas’ latest novel, is the last of my Australian fiction reading over the holidays. It tells the story of Danny Kelly, working class boy from Reservoir in …
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 Push is a Young Adult novel set in 1957, focusing on a young Sydney girl Erica who gets involved with the now famous, or infamous Libertarian group The …
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 …
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, …
In honour of the death last month of Doris Lessing, I’ve just reread her second novel, Martha Quest. Only this year have I discovered Doris Lessing and realised what I’d …
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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