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A review of Nobody's Fool & Everybody's Fool
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Richard Russo – Nobody’s Fool & Everybody’s Fool

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...

Review of That Old Cape Magic, by Richard Russo
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That Old Cape Magic

This novel is a meditation on how we see the world – in particular, how a man sees the world after losing his...

American Dirt - book review
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American Dirt

The experience of illegal migrants coming into the United States becomes singular and powerful in Jeanine Cummins' novel about the experience of Lydia,...

The Giver of Stars - book review
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The Giver of Stars

“It was, everyone agreed, fanning themselves outside the store or passing in the shade of the eucalyptus trees, unseasonably warm for September.” This...

Girl, Woman, Other - book review
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Girl, Woman, Other

The first thing I noticed about ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ by Bernardine Evaristo is the free-flowing nature of the sentences. Its lack of full...

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The Husband’s Secret

This is a thumper of a novel. It doesn’t start this way – it begins with a snug domestic scene filled with small...

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After ‘The Dry’ – Jane Harper’s next three novels

Since coming across Jane Harper’s ‘The Dry’ a couple of months ago, I have consumed her other three books – ‘Force of Nature’...

The Hypnotist's Love Story - book review by Debra Bradley
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The Hypnotist’s Love Story

Ellen is a hypnotherapist who meets a man through an online dating site because it’s not easy to meet men in the normal...

Charlotte Gray - book review by Debra Bradley
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Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray has a pretty grim cover image of a train station, smokiness, a woman in a big coat. Plus it's set in...

The Dry - by Jane Harper
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The Dry

Jane Harper’s novel is set in a small town called Kiewarra, which is a five hour drive from Melbourne, and a place of...