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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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| | | | Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... | |
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| | | | It's two or three days since I finished reading Valley of Grace, and I'm still savouring the reading of it. It's always such a pleasure to read Marion Halligan's novels ... I save them up when a new one comes along and wait to read them in the same way that I save a box... | |
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| | Here's a handful of my favourite music memoirs for Australian Music Month |