The Age Book of the Year Shortlist 2010
There’s only one author unfamiliar to me in this year’s Age Book of the Year shortlist. Come Inside is by Glenys Osborne, and it’s published by small publisher Clouds of Magellan. It’s also been...
View ArticleThe 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Award Shortlist
Prime Ministers come and go, and the recent ructions in Canberra made me fear for this award, but lo! here is the shortlist for 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Award! Fiction Summertime, J.M. Coetzee...
View ArticleLife and Times of Michael K By J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Booker Prize in 1983
Reviews From the Archive An occasional series, cross-posting my reviews from The Complete Booker. To see my progress with completing the Complete Booker Challenge, see here. Life and Times of Michael K...
View ArticleFoe (1986), by J M. Coetzee
When I set aside J M Coetzee’s Foe for Novellas in November, I had completely forgotten that I’d read it before. Indeed, I had even posted at Goodreads an embarrassed ‘review’ from my 2002 reading...
View ArticleThe Pole & Other Stories (2023) by J M Coetzee
It is ages since I read anything new by J M Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2003, and yet I have four books on the TBR: The Master of Petersburg (1994); Diary of a Bad Year (2007); Summertime...
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