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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Picador; 436 pages; 2021. Colm Tóibín is one of my favourite writers, but The Magician didn't quite work for me. It's an account of the life and times of Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann (1875-1955), whose work - Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain et al - I've never read,... | |
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| | | | | Just a quick summary of events today from Melbourne Jewish Book Week, always a good festival for us because they offer events that are enticing for both of us. Our first event was titled Whitewash, The Jews and Poland, featuring Holocaust historian Jan Grabowski by video link and interviewed by Jonathan Pearlman. Grabowski examines how... | |
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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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| | | Fiction - paperback; Canongate; 320 pages; 2004. A couple of years ago I read MJ Hyland's Booker Prize shortlisted novel, Carry Me Down, which I greatly admired. Her ability to get inside the head of a disturbed 11-year-old boy was nothing short of extraordinary.Her debut novel, How the Light Gets In -- written two years... | ||
