What to read this week: An anthology of short fiction and a memoir of reading
, and if that was your response to the pandemic lockdowns, good on you. It certainly wasn’t the case for some of our short-story writers. Their industry and inventiveness suffuse the 2021 edition of– a collection drawn from winners and short-listed entrants of the national literary prize, named after Furphy, that was revived by his descendants in 2020..
Michael Trant has a way to go to be as taut and austere as Lee Child , but the book’s setting is atmospheric; its action sequences surge with adrenaline and suspense as a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds.Another book set in WA – which could seem as distant as the moon to outsiders, even before the pandemic hermit kingdom it has lately been – takes us back to the late 19th-century and the first years of the pearling industry around Broome.
Legends of undersea jewels lure the quixotic Simon, the depth of Elle and Gabriel’s connection is revealed, and decades of regrets and compromises are glimpsed as long-submerged desire resurfaces. Hannah Lillith Assadi’s novel is formally elegiac with slightly gothic undertones.Every love story is a ghost story, sure, but while the exploration of memory and love here isn’t entirely confined to the shallows, its psychological mysteries aren’t that difficult to predict.
Along the way he gives a vivid picture of life in a dump like Rochdale. Books – he has more than 3000 in his collection – emerge as his friends, his comfort and a window onto a wider world.Picture the scene. A small village in Normandy in 1386. A murder trial. A pig in the dock – a real pig – being tried for the murder of a child as any human might be. The pig was found guilty and hanged. At the time pigs often roamed free, sometimes killed and trials such as this were not uncommon.
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