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Tag: Novel

Review: A Room With A View by E. M. Forster

A classic novel of travel and Romance.

Classics, England, Italy, Novel

Review: Sex And Vanity by Kevin Kwan

A fizzy adaptation of E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View.

Contemporary, Fiction, Italy, New York, Novel, Racism, Romance

Review: The Story Of A New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)

This second instalment of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet deepens and complicates the themes of the first.

Classics, Fiction, Italy, Novel

Review: Companion Piece by Ali Smith

A fittingly grim and anxious search for meaning in our anxious and grim times.

Ali Smith, Contemporary, COVID-19, Fiction, Novel, UK

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: Bodies Of Light by Jennifer Down

A novel of surviving extraordinary trials.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

A contained and seething study of madness and familial obligation.

1960s, Fiction, Jewish writers, London, Man Booker prize, Novel, UK

Review: Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr

A heady mix of mundane and heavenly, the sins of the flesh and the yearning of the spirit.

Arabic writing, Australian, Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction, Islam, Lebanon, LGBTIQ, Middle East, Novel, queer, Sydney, Turkey

Review: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

A monumental, meandering, magnificent tale of truth, love, beauty.

Classics, Fiction, France, Novel

Review: The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams

A novel about who defines the words that define us.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Novel

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