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anzlitlovers.com
Inspired by Kim's 10 Books for Australian Music Month, I have trawled through my reviews and found ten fourteen Australian novels that feature music and musicians. Links on the titles go to my reviews. Facing the Music (1994) by Andrea Goldsmith. The title is a clever play on words, it's a novel about a composer... |
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swiftlytiltingplanet.wordpress.com
"I must not wish my life away," she told herself. Elizabeth Taylor's novel, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is an exploration of old age, loneliness and impending death. The focus of the novel is Mrs. Palfrey and her tedious life as one of a handful of elderly residents at a fading hotel. Mrs. Palfrey, facing... |
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readingmattersblog.com
Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... |
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potpourri2015.wordpress.com
If you read my July Wrap Up Post or Paula at the Book Jotter's Weekly Wind Up #340 or Chris at Calmgrove's post A Moomin Memoir, last week, you must have noticed that plans were afoot for a celebration-or should that be two? Paula shared the wonderful news of her upcoming wedding next year, to... |
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