‘Wise Blood’ by Flannery O’Connor
Fiction – paperback; Faber and Faber; 160 pages; 2008. Flannery O’Connor’s debut novel, Wise Blood, was first published in 1949. It’s a rather odd, slightly disturbing, tale set in America’s...
View Article‘The Master & Margarita’ by Mikhail Bulgakov
Fiction – paperback; Alma Classics; 432 pages; 2012. Translated from the Russian by Hugh Aplin. When it comes to Russian literature, I’m woefully under-read. Indeed, I’ve only ever reviewed one great...
View Article‘Hidden Symptoms’ by Deirdre Madden
Fiction – paperback; Faber & Faber; 144 pages; 2014. In recent years, Deirdre Madden has become one of my favourite writers. She has 10 novels to her name, but I’ve only reviewed three of them —...
View Article‘Home Fire’ by Kamila Shamsie
Fiction – paperback; Bloomsbury; 288 pages; 2018. Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire is an astute, highly readable and compelling novel about the ways in which familial and patriotic loyalties can be tested...
View Article‘Abomination’ by Ashley Goldberg
Fiction – paperback; Vintage Books Australia; 280 pages; 2022. Ashley Goldberg’s debut novel Abomination is a wonderful examination of orthodox religion in a modern setting and how its rules,...
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