If you are in a book club, you need to workshop this book around a very large platter of triple cream cheese, pate and nuts and then see who dares to partake. It is perfect book club fodder in every sense. Firstly, it is written by the highly credible and well respected author of “We Need to Talk […]
Author Archives: Ms A
June
29
Jamaica by Malcolm Knox
posted by Ms A
If you ever want to get inside the head of a contemporary middle aged male, read a Malcolm Knox novel. You wont like what you see. Jamaica is one of Malcolm Knox’s first novels and has been on my bookshelf for about 12 months just waiting patiently for my attention. It is only now that am […]
June
23
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
posted by Ms A
I desperately want to meet this author. I think I would really like him. I also think it would help me understand what the hell he was thinking when he wrote the Imperfectionists. Maybe he was having a bad time at work and just imagining what all of his journalist colleagues were getting up to at home on the weekends or […]
April
04
Gina Reinhardt
posted by Ms A
At first I thought this book may have been a propaganda exercise for the “Let WA Succeed” movement but I’m afraid there is no getting around the fact it is an Australian story and an incredible one at that. Sometimes great stories can only be truly absorbed when enough time has passed to allow for reflection. With […]
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