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The Gathering

The Gathering (2007) – Anne ENRIGHT

May 11, 2013by Matthew Todd Leave a comment

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 […]

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Enright Anne
Mateship With Birds

Mateship With Birds (2012) – Carrie TIFFANY

April 27, 2013by Matthew Todd 1 Comment

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 […]

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Tiffany Carrie
The Commandant

The Commandant (1975) – Jessica ANDERSON

March 23, 2013by Matthew Todd Leave a comment

Expectations are a funny thing. If a book is marked as a ‘classic’—particularly as a forgotten classic that needs re-evaluating—a reader can be forgiven for expecting something quite special. This […]

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Anderson Jessica
The Burial

The Burial (2012) – Courtney COLLINS

January 26, 2013by Matthew Todd 3 Comments

What better way to celebrate Australia Day than by reviewing the promising debut novel from a young Australian writer? The Burial has been sitting on the shelves at work, sadly […]

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Collins Courtney
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The Memory of Love (2010) – Aminatta FORNA

January 12, 2013by Matthew Todd Leave a comment

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 […]

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Forna Aminatta
Black Flower

Black Flower (2003) – KIM Young-ha

January 8, 2013by Matthew Todd 2 Comments

It’s safe to say that, by far, this was the novel I was most looking forward to reading when the Man Asian Literary Prize longlist was announced. A fan of […]

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Kim Young-ha, SMALP2012
The Bathing Women

The Bathing Women (2000) – TIE Ning

December 22, 2012by Matthew Todd 1 Comment

Continuing with the Chinese women longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, I find myself faced with a book described by Ōe Kenzaburō as “one of the best ten literary […]

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SMALP2012, Tie Ning
sour.sweet

Sour Sweet (1982) – Timothy MO

December 15, 2012by Matthew Todd 1 Comment

When Timothy Mo’s new book, Pure, came out last year, I was intrigued by its premise. Doing some more research on him, I discovered that he had actually been shortlisted […]

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Mo Timothy
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Ru (2009) – Kim THÚY

December 8, 2012by Matthew Todd 3 Comments

This novel caught my eye a while ago for a variety of reasons. A Vietnamese-Canadian writer, Kim Thúy originally wrote this novel in French in 2009, though it was translated […]

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SMALP2012, Thúy Kim
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Questions of Travel (2012) – Michelle DE KRETSER

October 27, 2012by Matthew Todd 3 Comments

I haven’t read any of de Kretser’s other work, which includes the Booker longlisted The Lost Dog, from 2007. But when here new book arrived at our store a few […]

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de Kretser Michelle

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