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| | | | | Non-fiction - hardcover; Black Inc; 96 pages; 2024. In recent years I've become a fan of Black Inc's Writers on Writers series in which "leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and influenced them". I have previously reviewed volumes on Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Kate Jennings, and have many more in... | |
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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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| | | | | Fiction - hardcover;Farrar Straus and Giroux; 134 pages; 2018. For a slight book, Gerald Murnane's Border Districts: A Fiction packs a very large punch. Well, not so much a punch, but a tickling of the grey matter, for this is a novel - supposedly Murnane's last (he's 79) - that makes you see the world... | |
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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.... | ||
