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Sensational Snippets: Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel

I am not in the habit of letting work get in the way of the all-important business of reading and reviewing books, but things are just a little bit hectic at the moment. After two years of industrial… more →

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Sensational Snippets: Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel — 14 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 1 month ago: I am not in the habit of letting work get in the way of the all-important business of reading and re … more →

Tags: Booker Prize, British Literature, Quotations, complete booker, Mantel Hilary, 21st Century, female authors, Read in 2013, Hilary Mantel

Sensational Snippets: Lost Voices by Christopher Koch — 4 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 1 month ago: The whole point about great literature is that it offers more to think about than just the plot and … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Quotations, Australian literary fiction, KOCH, Christopher, Male Authors, Harper Collins Australia, Christopher Koch, lost voices

Sensational Snippets: Harland's Half Acre, by David Malouf

Lisa Hill wrote 2 months ago: I am reading Harland’s Half Acre by David Malouf, first published in 1984 but reissued by Vint … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Quotations, Australian literary fiction, Malouf David, 20th Century, Male Authors, Random House Australia, David Malouf, Harland's Half Acre

Plein Airs and Graces: The Life and Times of George Collingridge, by Adrian Mitchel — 6 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 3 months ago: What I liked best about Plein Airs and Graces: The Life and Times of George Collingridge by Adrian M … more →

Tags: 21st Century, Art, Australian History, Australian Literature, Australian Non Fiction., Biography, Life Stories, Male Authors, Mitchell Adrian

Sensational Snippets: Plein Airs and Graces: The Life and Times of George Collingridge, by Adrian Mitchel — 6 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 3 months ago: I am reading Plein Airs and Graces: The Life and Times of George Collingridge by Adrian Mitchell, wh … more →

Tags: 21st Century, Art, Australian History, Australian Literature, Australian Non Fiction., Biography, Life Stories, Male Authors, Mitchell Adrian

Sensational snippets: Questions of Travel, by Michelle de Kretser — 10 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 4 months ago: I am reading Questions of Travel, by Michelle de Kretser, and I came across a snippet which explains … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Quotations, Australian literary fiction, de Kretser Michelle, 21st Century, female authors, Allen & Unwin, Michelle de Kretser, Questions of Travel

The Glass Canoe, by David Ireland — 13 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 4 months ago: David Ireland, AM, born 1927 and author of ten novels, has the rare distinction of having won the Mi … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Australian literary fiction, Australian classics, IRELAND David, 20th Century, Male Authors, Text Publishing, Miles Franklin Winners, Read in 2013

Sensational Snippets: The Glass Canoe, by David Ireland — 15 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 4 months ago: I am reading The Glass Canoe, which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1976 and has recently been reiss … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Australian literary fiction, Australian classics, IRELAND David, 20th Century, Male Authors, Text Publishing, Miles Franklin Winners, David Ireland

Sensational Snippets: Lenin's Kisses, by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas — 12 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 4 months ago: I am reading Lenin’s Kisses, by Yan Lianke … and wondering why it wasn’t nominated … more →

Tags: Translations, Chinese Literature, 21st Century, Lianke Yan, Male Authors, Text Publishing, TRANSLATED BOOKS, Yan Lianke, Lenin's Kisses

Sensational Snippets: Lantana Lane, by Eleanor Dark — 7 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 4 months ago: It’s not often that I do a reading from my latest book at one of our dinner parties, but last … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Australian literary fiction, Australian classics, 20th Century, female authors, Allen & Unwin, DARK Eleanor, lantana lane, Eleanor Dark

Sensational Snippets: There Should be More Dancing, by Rosalie Ham — 3 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 5 months ago: Years and years ago. an old lady took a tumble in our local shopping centre.  My mother helped her u … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Quotations, Australian literary fiction, 21st Century, female authors, HAM Rosalie, There Should be More Dancing, Rosalie Ham

Sensational Snippets: Red Dirt Talking by Jacqueline Wright — 3 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 5 months ago: I’m posting this Sensational Snippet for my friends feeling the cold in the northern hemispher … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Australian literary fiction, Debut Aussie Fiction, female authors, Fremantle Press, WRIGHT Jacqueline, Red Dirt Talking, Jacqueline Wright

Sensational Snippets: Happy Valley, by Patrick White — 2 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 6 months ago: I’ve been collecting First Editions of Australia’s only Nobel Prize winning author, Patr … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Quotations, Nobel Prize, Australian literary fiction, Australian classics, White Patrick, 20th Century, Male Authors, Text Publishing

Sensational Snippets: The Voyage, by Murray Bail — 10 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 6 months ago: I am reading The Voyage, by Murray Bail, and although I’ve read only a few pages, I have notic … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, Quotations, Australian literary fiction, Bail Murray, 21st Century, Male Authors, Text Publishing, Murray Bail, The Voyage

Sensational Snippets: Exile, The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz, by Roger Averill

Lisa Hill wrote 7 months ago: I am reading Exile, The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz, a memoir by Roger Averill, and I came across … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, memoir, Australian Non Fiction., 21st Century, Male Authors, Transit lounge, AVERILL Roger, Exile the Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz, Roger Averill

Sensational Snippets: Love Like Water, by Meme McDonald — 5 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 7 months ago: I’m a city girl: I couldn’t live anywhere else. But this excerpt from Meme McDonald … more →

Tags: Author events and Festivals, Australian Literature, Young-Adult, Australian literary fiction, 21st Century, female authors, Allen & Unwin, McDONALD Meme, Love like water

Sensational Snippets: The Peastick Girl, by Susan Hancock — 2 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 7 months ago: Two Sensational Snippets within 48 hours of each other – that doesn’t often happen! The … more →

Tags: NZ literature, Debut Kiwi fiction, 21st Century, female authors, Black Pepper, HANCOCK Susan, New Zealand Literature, The Peastick Girl, Susan Hancock

Sensational Snippets: Dissonance, by Stephen Orr — 1 comment

Lisa Hill wrote 7 months ago: Stephen Orr is the masterful author of Time’s Long Ruin which was longlisted for the 2011 Mile … more →

Tags: Australian Literature, ORR, Stephen, Male Authors, Wakefield Press, Stephen Orr, dissonance

Sensational Snippets: Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman — 6 comments

Lisa Hill wrote 9 months ago: As part of my Year of Russian Reading, I have begun Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman’s magnum op … more →

Tags: Classics, 20th Century, Spanish Literature, Male Authors, Grossman Vasily, TRANSLATED BOOKS, Year of Russian Literature, Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman


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