Bri Lee knows how to put a sentence together. Most people get obsessed with plot and genre – they’ll only read something if it fits a certain mold. Yet good writing is about making anything compelling, which is why I can read The New Yorker from cover to cover regardless of what each feature is […]
The world doesn’t need yet another review of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Especially by a man. I get it. Yet I loved it so much, and so wish I’d been told how vibrant and witty it was earlier, that I was compelled to write this. Perhaps I never read it before because I’ve tended
When you hit a certain age, you can count on two things: you will be nostalgic for your youth most stories you read will feel familiar in some way. So it was a pleasant surprise to come across The Changing Room – it’s unlike any novel I’d read before and it transported me back to
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Ben doesn’t like being a nude model in a small country town. Then again, the local footballers don’t like their girlfriends ogling Ben. Broke and lonely, Ben falls for Marty, the ambitious and violent young woman rapidly taking over her brother’s drug and gun-running trade. Once Ben gets pulled into their dark world of bikies
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When I started reading this gentle, slow-moving novel, I couldn’t understand how it could have won the 1984 Booker Prize. It is so … slow. And yet I’m stubborn, which can make me annoying, but it also means when I buy a book I’ll force myself to keep reading, even when I want to ditch
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