Celebrating the language of place
There is a paradox at the heart of Robert Macfarlane’s latest project. Doesn’t language get between us and the world?
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Malcolm Knox has created a jewelled puzzle box in The Wonder Lover, his most complex novel to date.
Unluckiness of the Irish
John Connell’s The Ghost Estate explores the severity of the wounds that afflicted Ireland after the global financial crisis.
Mission to mulch
In his first published novel in 18 years, David Ireland provides a chilling antihero for our times.
Screwball stance takes beating
MIRANDA July’s The First Bad Man is a novel that starts out crazily and ends up, well, no less crazy.
Body of work
DAVID Malouf’s essays on the arts reveal a critic with wonderfully dangerous ideas.
Sense of yearning
IT is immediately apparent that Richard Kline is no clunky everyman but a strange and singular example of his kind.
Ghost in the attic
A MONUMENTAL biography of Paul Keating captures his succeses and failures and the high drama of his political evolution.
Book of Gaiman
AUTHOR Neil Gaiman knows well the importance of versatility.
His country
XAVIER Herbert’s immense, intense, ambitious, flawed novel Poor Fellow My Country still retains its bite.
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