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LIAM MURPHY The Roadmap of Loss. Reviewed by Paul Anderson

Posted on 21 Mar 2024 in Fiction |

Liam Murphy’s debut novel is both a road trip across the US and a journey into the past. It’s tempting to invoke the first stanza of Philip Larkin’s famous poem ‘This Be The Verse’ here. That’s because The Roadmap of Loss is about unresolved...

ROBYN BISHOP The Rust Red Land. Reviewed by Ann Skea

Posted on 20 Mar 2024 in Fiction |

Through the story of Matilda, Robyn Bishop’s novel reveals the constrained lives of women in rural New South Wales in the late 1800s. It is July 1892 and Matilda is just old enough to help Clara out of her cot, change her nappy and dress her, but...

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Day. Reviewed by CJ Pardey

Posted on 19 Mar 2024 in Fiction | 1 comment

In this new novel, New Yorker Michael Cunningham takes inspiration from lockdowns and their impact on relationships. In his most recent novel, Day, Michael Cunningham takes on the difficult business of fictionalising the Covid experience. In his...