'West' by Carys Davies (book review)
Several times I picked up this book, read the blurb and put it back down, feeling that a boys' own adventure in the American west...
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Jo
Aug 16, 20183 min read
'The Mars Room' by Rachel Kushner (book review)
As Lisa Allardice has said in The Guardian, this book will “mark you like a tattoo”, and she’s not wrong. About a third of way through...
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Jo
Aug 8, 20182 min read
'The Hope Fault' by Tracy Farr (book review)
Tracy Farr is an Australian who has lived in New Zealand for the last 20 or so years. The Hope Fault is her second novel, and it’s a...
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Jo
Aug 4, 20182 min read
'Little Gods' by Jenny Ackland (book review)
We travelled overseas for two months earlier this year, and I carried Jenny Ackland’s Little Gods with me all the way. (It is one of the...
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Jo
Jun 25, 20183 min read
'The Promise of Things' by Ruth Quibell (book review)
A few years ago we took the kids to a wonderful Circus Oz production called, But Wait, There’s More, a show built around the theme of...
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Jo
Mar 7, 20182 min read
'From the Wreck' by Jane Rawson
If I were to suggest to you that you ought to read a book about a shipwreck and an alien, would you read it? If someone had made that...
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