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Welcome to the ANZ LitLovers blog. It started out as a blog for an online reading group, and while it still retains its role as a portal to the group, its primary function now is as Lisa Hill's ANZ LitLovers LitBlog where you can find reviews and commentary about literary fiction, classics and non-fiction from Australia and New Zealand. There are also regular blog posts about contemporary..
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9h ago
The Postcard was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize, and a bestseller in France. And that’s interesting, because everybody’s favourite tourist destination doesn’t come out of it very well in this story that is a mystery, a portrait of Parisian intellectual and artistic life in the 20th century, and a devastating portrayal of how antisemitism ..read more
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The Age Book of the Year shortlists have been announced. The judges for the fiction prize were bookseller Mark Rubbo and writer and publisher Louise Swinn. The shortlisted titles are: Women & Children, by Tony Birch, on my TBR Anniversary, by Stephanie Bishop One Day We’re All Going to Die, by Elise Hearst, see my review ..read more
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3d ago
If you read my previous review of Donna Coates’ Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend, Australian Women’s War Fictions you will know that I had only read Part 1, about women’s war fiction about WW1, and found it very interesting indeed. Coates’ thesis is, from the blurb at AmazonAU: War is traditionally considered a male ..read more
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3d ago
I owe my discovery of this short novel ideal for the 1937 Club — hosted at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Stuck in a Book… …to Dorian from Eiger Mönch & Jungfrau when he wrote an enticing review for German Lit Week back in 2016. But I am very late to the party… I bought the ..read more
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5d ago
I owe my discovery of this short novel ideal for the 1937 Club — hosted at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Stuck in a Book… …to Dorian from Eiger Mönch & Jungfrau when he wrote an enticing review for German Lit Week back in 2016. But I am very late to the party… I bought the ..read more
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5d ago
Fiona Farrell ONZM is a New Zealand novelist, poet and playwright, and she writes non-fiction too, notably about the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. I discovered her writing last year when I read (and reviewed) The Deck (2023), and promptly ordered Decline and Fall on Savage Street and (mistakenly thinking it was a novel) its companion NF title ..read more
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5d ago
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. Thanks to a heads-up from Jennifer at Tasmanian Bibliophile at Large, I know that this month the theme is Poisson d’Avril ..read more
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5d ago
Elon Musk. Hmmm. I like long form essays about current issues, and having discovered interesting things to read in the Jewish Quarterly lent to me by a friend, I succumbed to subscribing to this journal when they made the decision to change to long form essays. The first one to arrive in my letter box ..read more
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5d ago
Even if you’ve never read a word of Frank Moorhouse’s fiction (a deficiency you might want to rectify) Matthew Lamb’s new biography is very good reading indeed. Strange Paths is Volume 1 of a planned 2-volume biography of this legendary author, and it covers the period up to 1974 , with the publication of The ..read more
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1w ago
Fiona Farrell ONZM is a New Zealand novelist, poet and playwright, and she writes non-fiction too, notably about the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. I discovered her writing last year when I read (and reviewed) The Deck (2023), and promptly ordered Decline and Fall on Savage Street and (mistakenly thinking it was a novel) its companion NF title ..read more