Bourne could be any town in the world where an industrial activity discharged dodgy effluent to a river, with the people responsible departing...
DebraFebruary 9, 2022
Sixteen-year-old Percy has an unreliable mother – she's been missing for nine days, and may right now might be flaked out in the...
DebraDecember 26, 2021
I gobbled Becky Manawatu’s novel over three days. It is a quintessentially New Zealand novel, which most reminds me of The Bone People,...
DebraOctober 24, 2021
This may be my book of the year. It is beautifully written novel set in Californian redwood forest, a land of fog and...
DebraOctober 24, 2021
I am totally hooked on Richard Russo novels right now. I listened to Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool on audio book, and every...
DebraOctober 24, 2021
This novel is a meditation on how we see the world – in particular, how a man sees the world after losing his...
DebraOctober 24, 2021
The experience of illegal migrants coming into the United States becomes singular and powerful in Jeanine Cummins' novel about the experience of Lydia,...
DebraAugust 15, 2021
“It was, everyone agreed, fanning themselves outside the store or passing in the shade of the eucalyptus trees, unseasonably warm for September.” This...
DebraAugust 15, 2021
The first thing I noticed about ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ by Bernardine Evaristo is the free-flowing nature of the sentences. Its lack of full...
DebraAugust 15, 2021
This is a thumper of a novel. It doesn’t start this way – it begins with a snug domestic scene filled with small...
DebraMay 15, 2021
