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I haven’t read anything by prolific American author Lionel Shriver since We Need to Talk About Kevin won the Orange Prize in 2005.  In my reading journal, I prefaced my thoughts by declaring that it was the most horrible book I’d ever read, and though I’ve read too many horrible books since then, We Need …

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Quite by accident, today I stumbled some powerful essays online by Perth-based Iranian-Australian journalist and author Shokoofeh Azar.  She is one of my favourite authors and I have recently reviewed her second novel The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of our Kitchen (2025) which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and before that …

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Failure.  It comes to us all, at some time or another, in our personal or professional lives, and though some times are harder than others,  we have to learn to deal with it.  That’s what adulthood is. But what if your entire professional life seemed a failure?  I don’t mean reputational damage or embarrassment about …

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It’s not long now before the winners of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are announced on May 13th, so I’m pleased that All Her Lives by Ingrid Horrocks has finally come in from the library. (Alas, I still haven’t been able to get my hands on the other two shortlisted titles.) All Her …

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Beyond the Broken Years: Australian military history in 1000 books by prolific historian Peter Stanley really is a very interesting book.  Although I’m grateful to the defence forces that put their lives on the line to protect our way of life, I’ve never had any interest in military history, as in which forces were deployed …

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