ANZ LitLovers LitBlog

The Age Book of the Year shortlists have been announced. The judges for the fiction prize were bookseller Mark Rubbo and writer and publisher Louise Swinn.  The shortlisted titles are: Women & ...

https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/04/23/2024-the-age-book-of-the-year-shortlist/

The Postcard was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize, and a bestseller in France. And that’s interesting, because everybody’s favourite tourist destination doesn’t come out of it very well in...

https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/04/22/the-postcard-by-anne-berest-translated-by-tina-kover/

If you read my previous review of Donna Coates’ Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend, Australian Women’s War Fictions you will know that I had only read Part 1, about women’s war fiction abo...

https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/04/19/shooting-blanks-at-the-anzac-legend-australian-womens-war-fictions-2023-by-donna-coates-part-2/

I owe my discovery of this short novel ideal for the 1937 Club — hosted at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Stuck in a Book… …to Dorian from Eiger Mönch & Jungfrau when he wrote an enticin...

https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/04/18/after-midnight-1937-by-irmgard-keun-translated-by-anthea-bell/

Fiona Farrell ONZM is a New Zealand novelist, poet and playwright, and she writes non-fiction too, notably about the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.  I discovered her writing last year when I rea...

https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/04/14/decline-and-fall-on-savage-street-2017-by-fiona-farrell/