Book review: The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
The headline in The Washington Post read: “If you like despair and ‘Orange is the New Black’, You’ll Love The…
Book review: Dear Life by Alice Munro
There is so much in Alice Munro’s short stories that it is hard to know where to start in reviewing…
Book review: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
It sounds macabre, but for some reason I feel attracted to books about the Holocaust. In recent years, I have…
Black Rock White City by AS Patric
Black Rock White City is a difficult book to sum up, as there are so many themes and ideas at…
Book review: Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
I had no idea what to expect from Hot Milk, but as soon as I started reading, I was swept…
Book review: The White Girl by Tony Birch
I read Tony Birch’s The White Girl in three days – once I started reading about grandmother, Odette, and her…
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
I came to The Witches of Eastwick as a big fan of John Updike. I had read Couples and the…
Book review: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing is a book that has been all over social media, so I was intrigued to have…
Book review: Hunger by Roxane Gay
After seeing Roxane Gay on the ABC’s Q&A program, I thought I knew what to expect with her memoir, Hunger…
Book review: Autumn by Ali Smith
I might have come to Autumn a little uninformed, believing it to have been written by Zadie Smith, rather than…
