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Hag-Seed – Margaret Attwood (2017)

I like Margaret Atwood. She has remarkable ideas and a clarity of style that makes reading most things she writes quite pleasurable to read. She has been around a long time – her first book being published in 1964, and she has gone on to write a lot more. She is a leading light…

A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin (1968)

Black Tide – Peter Temple (1995)

Black Tide is the second book of a series of four by Miles Franklin Award winner, Peter Temple. These books are about Jack Irish, a suburban Melbourne solicitor, who is recovering from the murder of his wife by an ex-client, by doing some basic legal work, recovering debts and…

World War Z - Max Brooks (2006)

This month we are reading World War Z by Max Brooks.

Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien (long read)

At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft (1931)

Howard Phillips Lovecraft is, like S&M, Morris Dancing and Death Metal, not for everybody. As a writer he was not successful in life, he suffered personal tragedies, had some wacky and downright offensive beliefs and a writing style that as a 1950s Sci Fi magazine editor…

Open Water

Open Water is an ambitious and at times confronting novel that contrasts a modern story of young love against a broader social commentary on racial prejudice and masculinity. The book is deeply lyrical, with poetic passages and refrains that echo the book's soundtrack of hip hop…