by NRB | 23 Dec 2016 | Fiction, Non-fiction |
Unusually, this year Jean only features one crime novel, but as usual our picks are widely different. Linda’s close following of Australian women’s fiction is evident, while Jean has returned to some classics. Jean’s picks: Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean...
by NRB | 16 Jun 2016 | Fiction |
Sophisticated narrative layering and emotional insight make Wuthering Heights an extraordinary novel. I believe Wuthering Heights to be one of the best (if not the best) English novels of the 19th century, possibly ever. I’ve read it perhaps 20 times, taught it in...
by NRB | 26 Nov 2015 | Fiction |
The Women’s Pages is as captivating as it is irresistibly clever. In the closing moments of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Lockwood, the novel’s narrator, visits the graves of Catherine, Edgar and Heathcliff, the soil covering Heathcliff’s grave...
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