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| | | | | If I were to rank the books I've read during the lifetime of this blog (and there are over 500 of them) in order of enjoyment, Eleanor Catton's The Rehearsal(2008) would be right at the top of the list. I bought it on a whim, knowing nothing about it; I was nearly put off by... | |
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| | | | | Quite by accident, today I stumbled some powerful essays online by Perth-based Iranian-Australian journalist and author Shokoofeh Azar. She is one of my favourite authors and I have recently reviewed her second novel The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of our Kitchen (2025) which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and before that... | |
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| | | | | Towards the end of this lovely book, the biographer's frustration is momentarily unleashed: If only her letters had survived! What might have been learned about Margaret's life during the Great War? (p.215) What indeed... In rescuing thestory ofthe botanical artist Margaret Flockton (1861-1953),Louise Wilson has done asterling job of celebratingFlockton's remarkable achievements, but the woman... | |
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| | | Nora Webster, by ColmTóibín Back in 2011 I loved Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn. He managed the remarkablefeat of writing an engaging novel about a rather passive young woman who encountersessentially nothing but help as she makes her way through life. In lesser hands it would have been excruciatinglydull, but in fact it made my best of... | ||
