20 Favourite Books from my 20s
My 20s were perhaps the most exciting reading period of my life. When they began I was studying literature at university, including two…
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Apocalypse Now! Top 10 Novels about the End of Days
The Ark is set in a post-peak oil scenario in which society as we know it collapses. So I’ve spent a lot of…
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Top 10 Books that Crack Me Up
Ever since I read Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue in 2012 I have been meaning to read another of his books and I finally got around to Wonder…
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Reading Round-Up: August & September 2013
I started August with Dave Eggers’ A Hologram for the King. Neither the title nor the description appealed to me but I like…
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…How easy it is, like coming home must once have been, for those who’d had homes. Walking through the doorway into the familiar,…
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There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. The there’s what…
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Perth Writer’s Festival 2013
For many years I have attended Perth Writers Festival as a reader and audience member; this year for the first time I had…
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Top 10: Sibling Rivalry
Every Tuesday The Broke and the Bookish hosts a meme inviting book bloggers to post their top ten on a given topic. I…
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My Love/Hate Relationship with Australian Fiction (I)
Last year I was invited by Westerly to write their annual fiction review. New Australian books would be delivered to me, absolutely pristine,…
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