June 2017 Round-Up: General Fiction

June 2017 Round-Up: General Fiction

The Australian Book Review recently awarded its prestigious Gender Fellowship to author and academic Marguerite Johnson, who will be writing on “Mapping Gender, Sexuality and the Environment: Picnic at Hanging Rock Fifty Years On”. This inspired me to re-visit Joan...
April 2017 Round Up: General Fiction

April 2017 Round Up: General Fiction

In April we had 94 reviews of 76 books by 72 authors. I cannot help but notice an interesting contrast – while Lisa Ireland received four reviews for one of her books, Liane Moriarty received four reviews for four of her books. Clearly, author popularity can be...
February 2017 Round Up: General Fiction

February 2017 Round Up: General Fiction

Welcome to the second round up for General Fiction for 2017, and a thank-you for Katt who kindly led by example with her piece in January. A short bio: I am Christine Sun, a bilingual writer, translator, reader and reviewer based in Melbourne. I review books by...