Genre: Literary fiction On a Sunday afternoon in 1964, Bert Cousins gatecrashes Franny Keating’s christening party. Franny is the daughter […]
literary reviews
Dad lay down in the bottom of the boat, using one of the life preservers as a pillow. […]
Genre: Literary It gets into your bones. You don’t even realise it, until you’re driving through it, watching […]
It’s been an incredible year for fiction. For every book I’ve read, I’ve added another five to my […]
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark (Hachette Australia, Nov. 2015) is a story of enchantment, illusion and compulsion that asks: what […]
Margot McGovern reviews Claire Vaye Watkins’ sublime tale of faith, dreams and disillusionment, Gold Fame Citrus. From space it seems […]
Margot McGovern reviews Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, a tragic love story in modern America. A thick drizzle from the […]
Margot McGovern finds four reads that reimagine life as we know it. This past month my reading has favoured the apocalyptic. I’ve […]
Margot McGovern reviews Emily St. John Mandel‘s Station Eleven (2014). Dr. Eleven stands on dark rocks overlooking an indigo […]
Margot McGovern reflects on reading Harper Lee’s much anticipated and somewhat controversial second novel, Go Set A Watchman. For thus […]
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