‘He feels a crease of disappointment, but it’s a mere fingerprint in a pie’s crust, one of the many dimples pressed into the soft dough of his soul. That quote, from the exquisite opening paragraph in chapter one of Mirandi Riwoe’s A SHORT HISTORY OF LONGANS, sets the tone for this most sublime of novels. […]
I read this quite a while ago, actually, but my travels got in the way of writing about it. Donna M Cameron won a KSP Fellowship for the manuscript, and rightly so; the novel is beautiful. Goodbye, Sydney, city of mirrors, beautiful whore who has sucked him dry. The subject matter lends itself to something […]
‘Doll Parts’ is a dual timeline suspense involving goth girls, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, a string of suicides, and a fractured, yet resilient, friendship. Cleverly entwining poetry and popular music with lyric prose, Zang takes us on a beautiful journey through girlhood and beyond. “‘It was the kind of pink-hazed sky that called for […]
This award winning novel did not disappoint. Sally Diamond is an incredibly original character cleaved from a fine writerly mind. Literary page turners in the crime genre are like rare diamonds, amidst the huge worldwide rubble. Highly recommend Strange Sally Diamond, and I’ll be seeking out other titles by Liz Nugent. How can you resist […]
