Category: Book Review: Fiction
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The Push
The crime happens at an anti-natal BBQ – the kind of place you wouldn’t expect conflict, right?
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Ghosts
“Being a heterosexual woman who loved men meant being a translator for their emotions, a palliative nurse for their pride and a hostage negotiator for their egos.”
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Nightingale
Dealing with issues of parental love (or the lack thereof), blame, homosexuality, self-loathing, love, loss, illness, trust and lies, Nightingale is somehow about nothing and everything all at once.
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Observatory Mansions
“Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.”
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The Swallowed Man
“I am writing this account, in another man’s book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten.”
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A Year In The Wild
Email exchanges between two brothers having a rather different experience of the South African bush…
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