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Mar 19, 20231 min read
1052. Thomas Keneally - The Dickens Boy
A library book via P, as was no.1051. I struggled with the lack of any significant plot here. One of Charles Dickens’ many children...
Feb 10, 20221 min read
944. Peter Papathanasiou - The Stoning
A new genre to me – ‘outback noir’; The Dry might fall into this category. An apparent murder in a grim town in the Australian outback,...
Nov 24, 20201 min read
829. Evie Wyld - All The Birds, Singing
A wonderful book, read it before (177 & 8) and still difficult. So, just to help out any other baffled reader, the even numbered chapters...
Nov 3, 20201 min read
824. Evie Wyld - After The Fire, A Still Small Voice
Bought this after indexing this blog and remembering 177 & 8. Didn’t enjoy it at all, 2 obscure narratives about young men in Australia...
Nov 19, 20191 min read
730. Alan Ross - Australia 63
A great cricket book, first published in 1963, at the end of this Ashes series, about 3 years before I got interested in cricket. Ross...
Aug 10, 20191 min read
703. Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers
One of Paddy’s – this pretty good. Sounds a bit Dorothy Sayers from the title and not that dissimilar in certain ways. Nine (perfect...
Nov 29, 20171 min read
553. Jane Harper - Force Of Nature
The 2nd novel, I think, by the author of ‘The Dry’, no 524. With hindsight, I think that book may have been slightly over-hyped; this was...
Sep 18, 20171 min read
524. Jane Harper - The Dry
A BBC book of the week I think not long before we went away. Very good Aussie (although I think JH is English) crime thriller. Set in a...
Aug 5, 20161 min read
422. Patrick White - Voss
I am not sure that (if ever) I have read this since 1976 (when it is signed as a Xmas present for P). It is quite hard going, but pretty...
Mar 29, 20151 min read
291. Patrick White - The Vivisector
This is a long and difficult book; I did punctuate it with no.290. About a modernist painter in modern day Australia; dedicated to Sydney...
Oct 24, 20141 min read
256. Oli Broom - Cycling To The Ashes
Another cricket related birthday present, but this is a brilliant travel book, and the cricket is just a coat hanger to steer him...
Jan 17, 20141 min read
178. Evie Wyld - All The Birds, Singing
Just re-read it; it is a brilliant book, once you can follow the plotting which is alternative chapters, odd numbers set on the island...
Jan 14, 20141 min read
177. Evie Wyld - All The Birds, Singing
Paddy got this from the library; it is written by some bright young thing ex Jesus College, where she used to work. It is very, very...