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October 1, 2020‘The Time of Our Lives’ by Robert Dessaix
The memoirist’s latest, surprisingly unsettling instalment
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October 1, 2020‘The Time of Our Lives’ by Robert Dessaix
The memoirist’s latest, surprisingly unsettling instalment
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September 1, 2020‘Little Eyes’ by Samanta Schweblin (trans. Megan McDowell)
Intimacy and privacy blur as people adopt cybernetic pets inhabited remotely by others, in this disturbing speculative fiction
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August 1, 2020‘A Room Made of Leaves’ by Kate Grenville
The author of ‘The Secret River’ returns with a canny twist to fictionalise the life of Elizabeth Macarthur, wife of the Australian pioneering settler
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July 1, 2020‘The Rain Heron’ by Robbie Arnott
An unsettling near-future tale of soldiers hunting a mythic bird by ‘the Tasmanian Wordsworth’
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June 1, 2020‘The End of October’ by Lawrence Wright
A ‘New Yorker’ journalist’s eerily prescient novel about public-health officials fighting a runaway pandemic
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May 1, 2020‘Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’ by Cho Nam-Joo (trans. Jamie Chang)
The coldly brilliant, bestselling South Korean novel describing the ambient harassment and discrimination experienced by women globally
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April 1, 2020‘Actress’ by Anne Enright
In a theatre setting, the masterly Irish writer considers the melting, capricious line between the truth and the fake
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March 1, 2020‘The Bass Rock’ by Evie Wyld
The Miles Franklin–winning author’s latest novel expands on her interest in the submission and consequential fury of women amid the impersonal natural world
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November 1, 2019‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood
The Booker Prize–winning sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is an exhilarating thriller from the “wiliest writer alive”
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September 25, 2019‘The Weekend’ by Charlotte Wood
The Stella Prize–winner returns with a stylish character study of women surprised by age
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September 1, 2019‘The Godmother’ by Hannelore Cayre
A sardonic French bestseller about a godmother, in the organised crime sense of the word
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August 1, 2019‘The White Girl’ by Tony Birch
An emotionally eloquent novel about the necessary inheritance of strength in Indigenous women
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July 2, 2019‘The Other Americans’ by Laila Lalami
An accidental death in a tale of immigrant generations highlights fractures in the promise of America
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June 2, 2019‘Animalia’ by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
The French author delivers a pastoral that turns on human cruelty
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May 1, 2019‘Room for a Stranger’ by Melanie Cheng
The medico-writer delivers a novel driven less by storyline than accumulated observation