All posts tagged "literary fiction"
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216Books & LiteratureBook Review: My Brilliant Sister, by Amy Brown
LITERARY FICTION: While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant careers and a woman’s place in the world.
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324Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Broken Wave, by Matthew Ryan Davies
LITERARY FICTION: In the small seaside town of Queenscliff, two boys from opposite sides of the world forge a friendship over a summer of sun, adventure and brotherhood. Until a catastrophic event shatters their idyllic childhoods.
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394Books & LiteratureBook Review: Everyone and Everything, by Nadine J. Cohen
LITERARY FICTION: A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Hitchhiker, by Gerwin Van Der Werf
LITERARY FICTION: Taut and compelling, The Hitchhiker is the story of a man who goes to great lengths to save what he has already lost.
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911Books & LiteratureBook Review: Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel
LITERARY FICTION: The award-winning author of Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel returns with a novel of time travel that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: All the Lovers in the Night, by Mieko Kawakami
LITERARY FICTION: The acclaimed and bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and Heaven returns with a blistering, shocking and poetic story set in contemporary Tokyo.
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823Books & LiteratureBook Review: Loveland, by Robert Lukins
LITERARY FICTION: Compelling, compassionate and profoundly moving, this new novel by the acclaimed author of The Everlasting Sunday confirms Robert Lukins as one of our finest writers.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: French Braid, by Anne Tyler
LITERARY FICTION: A stand-out new family novel from the critically acclaimed, Booker-prize shortlisted author of A Spool of Blue Thread.
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795Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Woman from Uruguay, by Pedro Mairal, translated by Jennifer Croft
LITERARY FICTION: From acclaimed Argentine author Pedro Mairal and Man Booker International-winning translator Jennifer Croft, the unforgettable story of two would-be lovers over the course of a single day.
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797Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Dust Never Settles, by Karina Lickorish Quinn
LITERARY FICTION: A hauntingly beautiful debut for fans of Isabel Allende and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Paper Palace, by Miranda Cowley Heller
LITERARY FICTION: A magnificent literary debut about the myriad loves that make up a life.
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431Books & LiteratureBook Review: Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney
LITERARY FICTION: Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: One, by Andrew Hutchinson
A nameless protagonist returns to work after a workplace accident, detached and alienated from everyone. When he finds a woman asleep in his driveway one night, he offers her a lift home which turns into a road trip where all is not as it seems.
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941Books & LiteratureBook Review: The French Perfumer, by Amanda Hampson
A civil servant with an ordinary life takes a job in the South of France, setting off on an adventure that will change her life forever.
