Floundering (2011) – Romy ASH
The Miles Franklin Award is being announced this week, and the last book I have to read on the shortlist is Romy Ash’s Floundering. It’s also been shortlisted for the […]
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Pow! (2003) – MO Yan
Mo Yan’s winning of the Nobel Prize probably couldn’t have come at a better time for Seagull Books, who released this Mo novel several weeks after the award was announced. […]
The Gathering (2007) – Anne ENRIGHT
The recent debate over the Booker Prize’s perceived shift away from the literary and towards the ‘readable’ overlooks a variety of important facts. The first, of course, is that one […]
Mateship With Birds (2012) – Carrie TIFFANY
The inaugural Stella Prize was announced last week. Conveniently, because Mateship With Birds was longlisted for both the Stella and the Miles Franklin, I thought I should probably read it […]
Swamplandia! (2011) – Karen RUSSELL
There was an outcry last year when the Pulitzer Prize judges decided not to award the Fiction prize—the first time since 1977. For me, the biggest story to come out […]
Silent House (1982) – Orhan PAMUK
I’m in a bit of a bind, so you’ll have to bear with me. The books that usually appear on this blog are the ones I’ve finished. I don’t put […]
The Mussel Feast (1990) – Birgit VANDERBEKE
I’ve taken the plunge this year and bough a subscription to Peirene Press‘ Turning Points series of contemporary European novellas. The blurb on the back of The Mussel Feast tells […]
The Memory of Love (2010) – Aminatta FORNA
Now that I’ve joined a pretty informal book club, I get to read things I’ve been meaning to for ages but haven’t gotten around to it. The Memory of Love […]
Between Clay and Dust (2012) – Musharraf Ali FAROOQI
Staying in Pakistan, though admittedly with a complete shift in tone, today’s longlisted Man Asian Literary Prize novel is Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s Between Clay and Dust, published by small Indian […]
Thinner Than Skin (2012) – Uzma Aslam KHAN
I’m heading west, away from the holy trinity of North East Asia to the mountains of Pakistan. This is Uzma Aslam Khan’s fourth novel, the second to be published by […]
