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‘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...
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‘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...
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‘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 —...
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‘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...
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‘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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