Annie Condon
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Review — 30 Dec 2014
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay has made her name as a professor of creative writing, feminist essayist, and commentator on politics and popular culture. She embodies the feminist precept, ‘the personal is political’…
Review — 26 Oct 2014
Frog by Mo Yan
So revered is Chinese author Mo Yan’s body of work that he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. Frog was published in Chinese in 2009 and has…
Review — 27 May 2014
The Skeleton Cupboard by Tanya Byron
Clinical psychologist Tanya Byron is well known as a columnist, television personality and adviser on mental health issues in the UK. While she has been a psychologist for over 20…
Review — 24 Jun 2014
Summer House With Swimming Pool by Herman Koch
My introduction to Herman Koch came when a friend thrust his earlier novel The Dinner at me, saying, ‘You HAVE to read this – I NEED to talk to someone…
Review — 24 Feb 2014
Kinder Than Solitude by Yiyun Li
Kinder than Solitude is an intriguing book about three friends – teenagers during the 1990s and the era of the Tiananmen Square protests. Ruyu is an orphan who has been…
Blog post — 5 Feb 2014
What I loved: How The Light Gets In by M.J. Hyland
In 1996 I began the RMIT Professional Writing and Editing course, and while I didn’t share any classes with M.J. Hyland, I soon began to hear a lot about her…
Review — 22 Sep 2013
The Pure Gold Baby by Margaret Drabble
The ‘pure gold baby’ of the title is Anna, a baby born in the 1960s to anthropology student Jessica. Anna results from Jessica’s affair with an older, married professor. Despite…
Review — 27 Aug 2013
What Was Left by Eleanor Limprecht
This is one of the best debut novels I have read in a long time. It tells the story of Rachel, who is feeling alone in the sleeplessness, worry and…
Blog post — 29 Jul 2013
Winter Book Club Recommendations
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With the cold nights upon us it seems book groups are clustering in homes with wine, cheese and some fabulous books.
Review — 29 Jul 2013
The Vale Girl by Nelika McDonald
Nelika McDonald’s debut novel is about a missing girl from a small town in NSW, set in the late ’80s. The author has chosen her era and setting well; the…