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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 really, really liked this book! Alan Gould is an Australian author with eight novels to his credit, but he is shamefully neglected and his books are hard to find. Back in 1998 when I read his superb fourth novel, Close Ups, (1994) which I'd found remaindered at a book stall, I finished my reading... | |
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| | | | | 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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| | | I am on my second reading of Gerald Murnane's new book, A Million Windows - and I can't resist sharing this marvellous metaphor for poetry... Imagine, if you will, a 'house of fiction' harbouring many writers, who seem to have corralled themselves into different wings of the house. In one wing no one 'owns to'... | ||
