General Fiction
All among the Barley by Melissa Harrison
All Among the Barley may be set on a Sussex farm in 1933, but the book explores a lot more than mere nostalgia for bygone…
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
In The Weekend by Charlotte Wood, Jude, Wendy, Adele and Sylvie have been friends for over forty years, since their shared days in Oxford. Now…
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
When his mother is sent to gaol, and his stepfather ‘disappears’, Eli and Gus are sent to live with a father they have never…
The Year of the Farmer by Rosalie Ham
The Year of the Farmer is the meatiest of Rosalie Ham’s output to date
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrick Backman
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrick Backman is a beautiful novella. It’s beautiful to look at and it’s beautiful…
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
What a strange little book Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata is! How to best describe it? Keiko is 36 years old, and has worked all…
Ladies in Black by Madeleine St John
This 2018 re-release of Ladies in Black by Madeleine St John commences with a gently humorous introduction by Bruce Beresford,
Elevation by Stephen King
Trying to categorise Stephen King’s books is fraught with difficulty — Elevation is a case in point.
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym
In Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in an office. What they do is never discussed.
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
I enjoyed getting to know Keiko, the titular character of Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones is story about what is means to be African American, the problems of incarceration in the US, and a…