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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...
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| | Oliver VII by Antal Szerb (1942) French title: Oliver VII Translated by Chantal Philippe. Oliver VII is my third Antal Szerb after Journey by Moonlight and The Pendragon Legend. We're in Alturia, a fictional country in Eastern Europe, a place that belongs to the former Austro-Hungarian empire. It's the kingdom of Oliver VII, a twenty-four-years...
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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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| I was really pleased to learn that Han Kang had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday. She has become one of my favourite writers that I've discovered during the lifetime of th...