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A blog about books and writing, through rainbow-tinted glasses. Every book gets a gay rating.

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Review: The Plague by Albert Camus

The Plague is understandably back on best-seller lists: the parallels with our current situation are striking.

Classics, COVID-19, Nobel Laureate

Review: There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett

A sweet and simple story about growing up in parallel worlds, Melbourne and Prague in 1980.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill

See What You Made Me Do goes beyond headlines to uncover the horrifying scale of domestic abuse in Australia.

Australian, Nonfiction, Stella Prize

Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood

A hilarious novel about mortality and ageing.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: The Yield by Tara June Winch

The Yield offers a generous and quietly radical vision of a possible Australia.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Stella Prize

Review: Here Until August by Josephine Rowe

Here Until August is an intriguing collection of 10 short stories. They often feel haunted and uncanny.

Australian, Short stories, Stella Prize

Review: Diving Into Glass by Caro Llewellyn

The story of a father and daughter, both touched by crippling illness.

Australian, Memoir, Stella Prize

Review: The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy

At the beating heart of this time-bending novel is love – platonic, romantic, parental – and its various betrayals.

Fiction

Review: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi

Celestial Bodies achieves a kind of literary perfection.

Arabic writing, Man Booker International, Novel, Oman, Translation

Review: Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn

A strange, rather beautiful and ultimately quietly devastating novel.

Classics, Fantasy, Fiction

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