THE SEVEN SKINS OF ESTHER WILDING.
Esther takes her foot off the accelerator and slows down to admire the sun turning the sea gold. This had been Aura’s, her elder sister’s...
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Neale Lucas
Jan 10, 20233 min read
SALT AND SKIN.
It is said that some people can see the scars of people who step onto the island of Seannay, a tiny remote Scottish Island in the Orkney...
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Neale Lucas
Jan 10, 20234 min read
THE KNIGHTON WOMEN'S COMPENDIUM.
Twelve-year-old Holly only wanted to be a singer and sing with Olivia Newton-John. But when her music teacher says to “give her voice a...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 20, 20223 min read
HORSE
Although this novel is entitled “Horse” and is ostensibly about a magnificent historical horse and the prestigious horse races of the...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 13, 20223 min read
LIMBERLOST.
Longlisted for the 2023 Australian Indie Award for Fiction. Ned, too young to join his brothers off fighting in the war, leads a pretty...
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Neale Lucas
Dec 5, 20222 min read
ELEKTRA.
In the last few years, The Iliad and Greek Mythology has been fertile ground for authors. In particular, the retelling of myths and...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 22, 20222 min read
PAST THE SHALLOWS.
Miles is old enough now to replace the gap left by Uncle Nick. Old enough to man the boat himself while his father and the other two men...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 17, 20223 min read
STONE BLIND.
Natalie Haynes has again returned to Greek Mythology to tell a tale in a different light. This time she is retelling the myth of Medusa....
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Neale Lucas
Nov 7, 20222 min read
OH WILLIAM!
Quite simply this novel is interchangeable with the two previous “Lucy” novels (I have not read the fourth yet). This, depending on your...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 4, 20222 min read
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
Amgash is the hometown of Lucy Barton and the small town where these short stories take place. This collection of short stories, while...
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Neale Lucas
Nov 1, 20223 min read
MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON.
A routine appendix removal turns into a nine-week hospital stay for Lucy Barton. The doctors are not sure of the problem or cause of the...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 29, 20223 min read
THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA.
The winner of the 2022 Booker Prize. The novel opens with our protagonist, Maali Almeida, dead and already in the afterlife. An afterlife...
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Neale Lucas
Oct 19, 20223 min read
ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR.
Takeo cannot fathom, cannot imagine in his wildest thoughts that a man could be violent, physically violent to a fellow man. Takeo is one...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 18, 20222 min read
SLADE HOUSE.
Every nine years down a narrow winding alley hemmed in by brick walls, a small iron door ominously appears. This is the doorway to Slade...
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Neale Lucas
Sep 8, 20223 min read
THE COLONY.
Mr Lloyd is more concerned about the security of his paints, brushes, and easel than his own safety as he embarks for the island....
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Neale Lucas
Aug 31, 20225 min read
THE BONE CLOCKS.
Here is Nat K's wonderful review of THE BONE CLOCKS. We both loved it, awarding it 5 stars. Nat has gone on to say that it is her...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 30, 20223 min read
THE BONE CLOCKS.
Book six of the DavidMitchellathon with the wonderful Nat K. With everything going on in this novel it’s easy to miss that this...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 25, 20223 min read
WE HAD TO REMOVE THIS POST.
REVIEW BY NAT K ”So what kind of things did you see?” Remember the TV show Dirty Jobs? Where Mike Rowe takes us to the world of weird,...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 22, 20223 min read
THE TRIBE
Years ago I read "THE LEBS" by this author when it was long and then shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. I enjoyed it very...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 20, 20223 min read
TRISTESSA
REVIEW BY NAT K. tristesse (French noun) Meaning “melancholy” or “sorrow” - Merriam Webster dictionary Tristessa is the name of the...
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