A furious and thrilling novel about the “lives you might have had.”
Tag: Novel
Review: The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan (translated by Howard Goldblatt)
A potent depiction of a time and a place, and seething critique of corruption.
Review: The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld
An accomplished novel that forensically examines misogyny in all its forms.
Review: Song Of The Crocodile by Nardi Simpson
Another unpredictable and unsettling novel from the latest flourishing of Aboriginal writing.
Review: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
A tremendously rewarding novel about love in the cruellest of places.
Review: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
An ambitious novel about war and memory.
Review: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
A tale of despair, illness and poverty that captures the swooping highs and devastating lows of life.
The best books I’ve read 2020
The books that have had the biggest impact on me this year.
Review: The Adventures Of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre)
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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.
