Reviews and GIVEAWAY
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Conversations With Friends
"You live through certain things before you understand them. You can't always take the analytical position."
Day 3, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Eleanor Gordon-Smith & Nesrine Malik
By Megan Thomas It has taken me long enough, hasn't it? But I didn't want to bombard you, readers (mom), with the whole experience in one go - it's all about strategic posts, you see. Or at least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. My final event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival…
The Drover’s Wives
Ryan O'Neill's 101 retellings of the Australian classic short story, The Drover's Wife by Henry Lawson.
Heartburn: Book of the Month (October 2019)
"That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves minor atrocities on both sides to a nice, neat, simple one where one person has done something so horrible and unforgivable that the other person is immediately absolved of all the low-grade sins of sloth, envy, gluttony, avarice and I forget the other three."
East of Croydon
"I know that a choice is presenting itself. I can play the squeamish Westerner, protect the delicate flora of my intestinal tract and offend a bunch of festive animists. Or I can be another person, a different Susan – a fearless explorer embracing with open hands and open heart a strange new world."
Day 2, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Anita Anand
Discussion and presentation by Anita Anand on her new book, “The Patient Assassin”, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
