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| | | | Novellas in November is a good time to tackle some of the backlog of Aussie titles from the 20th century. The late Helen Hodgman (1945-2022) was a Tasmanian author of six highly regarded novels.Jack and Jill (1978) was her second novel (after Blue Skies, 1976, see my review) and it won the Somerset Maugham Award.... | |
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| | | | The Shortlist will be announced on 16 January 2017, with the Category Winners and the Overall Book of the Year Winner being announced at the Leading Edge Books 2017 Conference on Monday, 20th March 2017 at the Marriott, Surfers Paradise. FICTION The Easy Way Out by Steven Amsterdam (Hachette Australia) See my review. Between a... | |
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| | | | The hysteria of The Weekend Australian newspaper gets worse and worse in the wake of the Coalition's electoral woes, but every time I decide that this will be the last time I glance at The Review pages, something stops me in my tracks. This week it was sobering news of author Tracy Sorensen, a gifted... | |
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| | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 240 pages; 2003. This is one of those rare books that is almost impossible to review without quoting the whole novel from cover to cover. Pretty much every clipped and stripped back sentence in Paula Fox'sThe Widow's Children resonates with meaning and provides startling insights into the ways in which family... |