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Well here we are at the end of another week of Shed Hell, we have four days left to get the last of the stuff out of the shed (and have of course left the hardest stuff till last) and I haven’t written my review of Robin Jenkins The Cone Gatherers or Geoffrey Dutton’s The […]


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William Lane’s sixth novel Saturation (2025) was such an interesting book for the 2026 Speccy Fiction challenge hosted by Book’d Out.  Ambrose and Ursula, two librarians, strive to have a baby in a world where children seem less prevalent. Their story becomes increasingly punctuated by seemingly random episodes of violence inflicted upon their world as […]


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Spell the Month in Books is a linkup hosted on Reviews From the Stacks on the first Saturday of each month, but that’s the day for #6Degrees, so here we are, a week later instead. This month’s theme is ‘New’ and I’ve chosen to interpret this with books written by authors new to me, who were […]


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Ever since the news about the Adelaide Festival broke, I have kept my counsel, expecting — as has now come to pass — that the saboteurs would have their way and the festival would be cancelled. I have been a strong supporter of Australian books and writing ever since I started this blog, but I […]


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I’m the first to admit that it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to share my thoughts about Kokoro because I haven’t read much J-Lit, and — with the exception of Death by Water (2009) by Kenzaburo Oe (translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm), and more recently Under the Eye of the Big Bird (2016), by […]


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