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"Piano Lessons" by Anna Goldsworthy: Black Inc., 224 pp; $27.95
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At first glance, Anna Goldsworthy’s memoir, Piano Lessons, appears rather modest: she revisits her childhood and adolescence in comfortably...
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'Outliers: The Story of Success' by Malcolm Gladwell
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Perhaps by virtue of his own accomplishments, Malcolm Gladwell - author of bestsellers The Tipping Point and Blink, writer for the New...
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‘Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All’ by Christina Thompson
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Growing up in land-locked Boston, Christina Thompson knew "almost nothing of the islands or the sea", but a steady diet of...
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‘The Story of Forgetting’ by Stefan Merrill Block
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Abel is a hunchbacked recluse pushing 70. Basic tasks and a bottomless mourning for his lost family mark his days. A real-estate boom makes...
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‘The Sleepers Almanac No. 4’ edited by Zoe Dattner & Louise Swinn
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Melbourne-based Sleepers Publishing has been steadily creating a well-deserved buzz around its annual collection of short fiction. Almanac...
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‘How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read’ by Pierre Bayard
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According to Pierre Bayard, a professor of literature at the University of Paris, you do not have to read books to be able to speak about...
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'No One Belongs Here More Than You' by Miranda July
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Lonely people suit short stories. Uneventful lives punctuated with occasional incident are easily delineated, revealing poignancy and even...
More ...'Tuvalu' By Andrew O’Connor
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A young man named Noah goes to Japan and ekes out a threadbare existence teaching English in cubicles to pay for his room in a rambling...
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In colonial New South Wales – where the convicts outnumber the jailers, the natives outnumber the convicts, and the sheep outnumber the lot...
More ...'Lunar Park' by Bret Easton Ellis
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In his latest novel Bret Easton Ellis introduces a narrator, also called Bret Easton Ellis, whom we are encouraged not to trust for any...
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