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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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| | Here's a handful of my favourite music memoirs for Australian Music Month
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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...
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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...