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ALI SMITH Spring. Reviewed by Folly Gleeson

Posted on 6 Jun 2019 in Fiction |

Ali Smith’s latest novel is erudite, political, and full of riches. This is the third novel in Ali Smith’s sequence based on the seasons: Autumn, Winter, and now Spring. It is much darker than the first two novels, and although one...

TIM CLARE The Ice House. Reviewed by Robert Goodman

Posted on 4 Jun 2019 in Fiction, SFF |

Tim Clare’s second novel follows in the footsteps of other modern British fantasists like China Miéville and Jeff Vandermeer. In 2015 Tim Clare released his debut fantasy The Honours. That book felt like a reinvigoration of classic British...

Marvellous Monday Giveaway

Posted on 3 Jun 2019 in Giveaways & Quizzes |

This week week our giveaway features two remarkable convict women:  Meg Keneally’s new novel Fled, based on the life of Mary Bryant, and Jessica North’s biography Esther, about the First Fleet girl who became First Lady of the colony. ...

ANDREA GOLDSMITH Invented Lives. Reviewed by Jeannette Delamoir

Posted on 28 May 2019 in Fiction |

This new novel from the author of the award-winning The Memory Trap explores what happens when an imagined life meets reality. The preface of Andrea Goldsmith’s Invented Lives cites Romanian author Norman Manea’s The Fifth Impossibility. ‘We are...

Marvellous Monday Giveaway

Posted on 27 May 2019 in Giveaways & Quizzes |

Start your week with a chance to win the latest titles by two much-loved Australian authors, Graeme Simsion and Peggy Frew, as part of our  our new series of Monday giveaways.  To go in the draw to win both books, simply email...