Nicole Mansour
Nicole Mansour is a former Readings St Kilda bookseller
Review — 7 Feb 2013
Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
I remember, as a child, sitting at our kitchen bench one morning before school and feeling an earthquake. I remember feeling our apartment gently moving, the low rumble, the rattling…
Review — 23 Jun 2013
All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
Australian-born, London-based writer Evie Wyld was recently named as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists for 2013, and her second novel, All the Birds, Singing, is already…
Review — 2 Jun 2013
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
It’s possible that, in another life, I lived in New York, rode a motorcycle and was in love with an Italian artist. This would certainly explain why I find myself…
Review — 29 Jul 2013
A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam
The blurred line between humans and animals is a familiar one, both in science and in literature. In his latest novel, Colin McAdam has vividly woven these worlds together with…
Review — 29 Apr 2013
In the Memorial Room by Janet Frame
Given that the history of posthumous publishing has not always ended happily, one might be excused from feeling a sense of trepidation as they approach the latest release by New…
Review — 1 Apr 2013
The God Argument by A.C. Grayling
In recent years, the debate between defenders and critics of religion has become acerbic, much like a quarrel between two bad-tempered people. In his latest book, A.C. Grayling sets out…
Review — 13 Mar 2013
Clay by Melissa Harrison
Anyone who has ever lived in London will remember with pleasure, I should think, the exquisiteness of the city’s public gardens. From the stretches of commons and parks, to the…
Review — 20 Aug 2012
Triburbia by Karl Taro Greenfeld
[[karl-taro]]Welcome to Triburbia. Well, Tribeca, actually. Karl Taro Greenfeld’s debut novel, set in New York’s trendy lower Manhattan district, is a clever, witty and no doubt thinly veiled chronicle of…
Review — 23 Sep 2012
The Voyage by Murray Bail
[[murray-bail-sm]]Murray Bail is a storyteller. Perhaps not one in the conventional sense, but rather more like a narrator of fables and folktales cleverly fused together, a strange mixture of surrealism…
Review — 3 Jun 2012
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
[[Enrique_Vila-Matas]] Spanish born writer Enrique Vila-Matas is the master of the non-novel. Like his other translated work, in particular Bartleby & Co and Never Any End to Paris, his…