The Age of Innocence (1920) – Edith WHARTON
As with so many books I read, this had been sitting on my pile for a long time. I had even picked it up and tried to read it some […]
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The Waves (1931) – Virginia WOOLF
In my recent ‘reading less’ period, I’ve been trying to pick short books, in the hope that I will actually get through them at a reasonable rate. I have no […]
Plains of Promise (1997) – Alexis WRIGHT
And so the march of contemporary Australian novels continues at university, and so, therefore, do my reviews. I read about half of Carpentaria a little while after it won the […]
The Yacoubian Building (2002) – Alaa AL ASWANY
To distract myself from the huge pile of Australian novels I have to read very soon, I thought I’d pick up something that was thoroughly different. The Yacoubian Building caught […]
