SUSAN JOHNSON My Hundred Lovers. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
Susan Johnson’s new novel is both a woman’s search for love and a meditation on the senses. As Samuel Beckett reminds us, we are all born ‘astride of a grave’, so there...
Read MoreSTEVE LEWIS and CHRIS UHLMANN The Marmalade Files. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
This slickly sliced satire offers an insider’s view of federal politics. In a political world that contains all the strange twists of, say, the James Ashby/Peter...
Read MoreFRANCESCA RENDLE-SHORT Bite Your Tongue. Reviewed by Annette Hughes
This fictonalised memoir is a book of revelations. Two little girls, sisters, dare each other to touch tongues. I’ve done it, but always thought we were the only...
Read MoreRACHEL WILLIAMS and PETER WARRINGTON The Stripey Street Cat. Reviewed by Jean Bedford
Cats, Newtown, street art … this charming book has everything. It was my seven-year-old grandson who first spied The Stripey Street Cat with his beady eye and...
Read MoreCrime Scene: ARNALDUR INDRIDASON Black Skies; QUENTIN BATES Cold Comfort
Iceland’s economic crash gives texture to two crime novels. Arnaldur Indridason is a well-known and best-selling Icelandic author, many of whose novels have been...
Read MoreJANETTE TURNER HOSPITAL Forecast: Turbulence
These stories of family trauma find their echoes in the elements. In ‘Moon River’, the chapter of memoir that comes at the end of this collection of short stories,...
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