by NRB | 21 Feb 2017 | Fiction |
Gibbons’s parody is a masterpiece of comedy in its own right. Cold Comfort Farm was first published in 1932. Gibbons says at the beginning of the novel that it is set in the ‘near future’ though this only seems to manifest itself in television-phones and the...
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...
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