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From the unsettling slightly blurred font on the cover page to the disturbing and rather melancholy climax, Stallo is a strange and creeping mystery that travels nigh on the entire length of Sweden. It evokes the cold chill of a Scandinavian winter, lonely cabins in darkened woods, and the great unknown of the aurora-lit north and Lappland.
Read Jamie Ashbird's review of Stallo by Stefan Spjut, translated by Susan Beard. (via melbournereviewofbooks)
Tambour writes with confident good humour and fluidity. It would be inaccurate to say each story in The Finest Ass in the Universe takes your hand and pulls you into its world. Rather, each story dunks you headlong into the vortex of its world.
Read Ceclia Quirk's review of The Finest Ass in the Universe by Anna Tambour. (via melbournereviewofbooks)
Which brings us back to Green Valentine. Lili Wilkinson has written an unapologetically optimistic story of finding love, learning acceptance and changing the world, one strawberry at a time, and it’s like a warm shower after a week’s worth of camping in the rain. It could possibly even be the sweetest story ever written.
Read Louise Angrilli's review of Green Valentine by Lili Wilkinson. (via melbournereviewofbooks)
My propensity for drawing these grotesques is a major factor in my attraction to Flanimals. The Flanimals were created by Ricky Gervais who sketched them, described them, and then came up with some fabulous names. He then co-opted his friend, Rob Steen, to illustrate his visions in glorious technicolour.
Read Jamie Ashbird's review of Flanimals (Ricky Gervais, Illustrated by Rob Steen). (via melbournereviewofbooks)
Koryta is a skilled writer working within the tight framework of the detective novel and is doing a good job of it. Last Words is on par with some of the better examples of the genre, it meets the standard and delivers what it promises.
Read Tim Hehir's review of Michael Koryta's new crime novel Last Words. (via melbournereviewofbooks)
Yet something in Rakoff’s confiding, urgent tone, which reminded me a little of 19th century novelists, kept me going. Though I found most of the characters irritating and some themes and elements troubling, I enjoyed A Fortunate Age. I enjoyed it rather a lot.
Read Cecilia Quirk's new review-The unexpected enjoyable reads within a not-so-favourite genre-A fortunate age by Joanna Rakoff. (via melbournereviewofbooks)
Us Conductors tells the story of the inventor of the Theremin, Lev Sergeevich Termen; it does it in very modern way which grew on me as I read it and got into the flow. It would be hard to be anything but a bit of a sad story I guess; this was not a man who had a good, happy, fulfilled life. His inventions, what he did and the time in which he lived are interesting, but his private life was obscure and the things that happened to the man were often tragic.
Read A.E. Jean's review of Us Conductors by Sean Michaels. (via melbournereviewofbooks)
Before breaking into the world of children’s stories, Danny Wallace seemed to be a bastion of the manboy-challenges-himself-to-something-stupid-and-then-writes-about-it genre. Danny I, King of Lovely*, brings to this story the humour and, most especially, the warmth that mark his previous works. Hamish and the Worldstoppers is touching without being sentimental.
Read Jamie Ashbird's review of Danny Wallace's new novel Hamish and the World Stopper (illustrated by Jamie Littler). (via melbournereviewofbooks)
