The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.
Tag: Fiction
Review: The Adventures Of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre)
Lesbians! Cowboys! Argentina!
Review: The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (translated by Michele Hutchison)
This is a novel that does what it says: a truly discomforting tale of death and grief set in a grim twilight world.
Review: A Treacherous Country by K. M. Kruimink
A strange and misty novel set in colonial Van Diemen’s Land.
Review: Real Life by Brandon Taylor
An aching novel of a young man trying to find a place in the world.
Review: Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
Stone Sky Gold Mountain offers a rearranging of Australian history, reminding us other settlers were also here in the early days.
Review: Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
A dreamy, mirage-like novel where things change shape before your eyes.
Review: Poly by Paul Dalgarno
Poly is a riot of a novel, an all out brawl.
Review: Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne
Cherry Beach is a painful portrait of millennial queer life, and agonising desire.
Review: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Cleanness is a book of lofty ideas, grounded in the flesh.
