A vast, “open-wound theatre” that peers deep into a continent’s soul.
Tag: Contemporary
Review: Boulder by Eva Baltasar (translated by Julia Sanchez)
A juicy domestic horror.
Review: Little Plum by Laura McPhee-Browne
A beautiful and tender novel of becoming a mother.
Review: Shirley by Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott renders pre-pandemic life scintillatingly strange.
Review: Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
Taught and supple as leather, menacing and poignant.
Review: The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
A sweeping, grandiose tale of love and war.
Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (translated by Mara Feye Lethem)
A short, elemental novel pulsing with the rhythms of time.
Review: Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson
I screamed, I cackled, I winced my way through these delicious short stories.
Best books I’ve read 2022
My favourite reads of the year.
Review: Vā (edited by Sisilia Eteuati and Lani Young
A rich series of stories and poems from the Pacific Ocean.
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