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Tag: Female writers

Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson

A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.

Australian, Contemporary, Fascism, Female writers, Feminism, Fiction, Historical, Novel, Spec-fic, Witches

Review: Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy concisely summarises what makes her own writing so compelling.

British, Female writers, Memoir, Nonfiction, South Africa, UK

Review: Light by Eva Figes

A masterful, stroll-around-a-garden novella.

Art, British, Classics, Female writers, Fiction, France, Novella, Painting

Review: Eating With My Mouth Open by Sam van Zweden

Eating With My Mouth open is an investigation of food, body and memory, and all the things they can mean.

Australian, Female writers, Food, Food writing, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: Revenge by S. L. Lim

A furious and thrilling novel about the “lives you might have had.”

Australian, Contemporary, Female writers, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Malaysia, Novel, queer, Stella Prize

Review: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld

An accomplished novel that forensically examines misogyny in all its forms.

Contemporary, Female writers, Fiction, Novel, Scotland

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This huge history of the last 30,000 years of human existence sets out to demolish the myth of progress, that humans started out in simple tribes and ended up in complex Western civilisation.
The second of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels picks up immediately where the first left off, back at the wedding of the brilliant Lila Cerullo to grocer and neighbourhood businessman Stefano Carracci. What follows is a more sprawling but also more contained story, following Lila and narrator Lenu through Lila’s marriage and Lenu’s studies in their early twenties.
Ali Smith is done. At the beginning of this *cough* companion piece to her recent Seasonal Quartet, narrator and artist Sand is bummed out and in isolation, even bored with puns and wordplay (Ali Smith without puns and wordplay!?). It’s 2021 in the UK and lockdown is over but people are still dying by the hundreds.
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