JoSep 17, 20184 min'West' by Carys Davies (book review)Several times I picked up this book, read the blurb and put it back down, feeling that a boys' own adventure in the American west...
JoAug 16, 20183 min'The Mars Room' by Rachel Kushner (book review)As Lisa Allardice has said in The Guardian, this book will “mark you like a tattoo”, and she’s not wrong. About a third of way through...
JoAug 8, 20182 min'The Hope Fault' by Tracy Farr (book review)Tracy Farr is an Australian who has lived in New Zealand for the last 20 or so years. The Hope Fault is her second novel, and it’s a...
JoAug 4, 20182 min'Little Gods' by Jenny Ackland (book review)We travelled overseas for two months earlier this year, and I carried Jenny Ackland’s Little Gods with me all the way. (It is one of the...