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readingmattersblog.com
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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anzlitlovers.com
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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katemacdonald.net
I'm on holiday, typing one-fingered into a smartphone screen, so this review of Anthony Trollope's first Barsetshire novel, The Warden, will be excused for its brevity, I hope. It's attracted some attention on Substack, so some of it might be worth reading. https://substack.com/@katemacdonald/note/c-89981753?r=z79ub |
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readingmattersblog.com
Fiction - paperback; Faber & Faber; 164 pages; 2014. Deirdre Madden's The Birds of the Innocent Wood, first published in 1988, is a mysterious, opaque tale about dark family secrets and strained relationships spanning two generations. It reads a bit like a thriller, helped by a few fast-paced early chapters, before settling into an intriguing... |
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