Category: Domestic Fiction

Ash – Louise Wallace

Posted on February 20, 2025 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Thea is a veterinarian on maternity leave, called back in just before disaster strikes. Ash has a focus on motherhood, misogyny, female expression, rage and Mother Nature. This novella is presented creatively with prose, poetry, footnotes and unique typesetting.… Continue Reading “Ash – Louise Wallace”

Category: Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Experimental fiction, Female Experience, Feminism, Humour, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, NZ Book Awards, PsychologicalTags:

Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata

Posted on May 20, 2023 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Suzy Keiko is a young Japanese convenience store woman who enjoys the repetitive nature of her job, often referring to the store manual to act and respond to requests appropriately. Her simplistic life is ridiculed by friends and family for… Continue Reading “Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Female Experience, Japanese, Translated

Lessons – Ian McEwan

Posted on January 27, 2023 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie In a type of anti-memoir, McEwan has created Roland, a character who has lived the same years as him, observed the same global events and pondered the same questions about humanity and society. Roland has even lived in some… Continue Reading “Lessons – Ian McEwan”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, UK author

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

Posted on November 2, 2022 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo The lives of two African-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia in the early to mid 20th Century are detailed in The Color Purple. Celie is raped by her stepfather and bears two children to him who are sent… Continue Reading “The Color Purple – Alice Walker”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Queer, US fiction

Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen

Posted on April 20, 2022 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Suzy The Hilderbrandts are a clery family from New Prospect, Illinois. The minister father heads a youth group named Crossroads, yet this reference also pertains to the members of the Hilderbrandt family, who are all in a quandary of sorts… Continue Reading “Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Literary fiction, US fiction

Greta & Valdin – Rebecca K Reilly

Posted on March 26, 2022 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Greta and Valdin are brother and sister, both gay, with mixed heritages and living together in Auckland attempting to navigate life and all its triumphs and tribulations. Greta is a student/English tutor with a misguided crush on friend and… Continue Reading “Greta & Valdin – Rebecca K Reilly”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction

Blue Ticket – Sophie MackIntosh

Posted on September 22, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo Set in a dystopian future, all women, on the first day of their menstruation, are allocated a future at random: a white ticket grants marriage and children; a blue ticket grants a career and freedom. Women are told this… Continue Reading “Blue Ticket – Sophie MackIntosh”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Dystopian, Feminism, Literary fiction, Science Fiction, UK author

The Northern Clemency – Philip Hensher

Posted on October 5, 2008 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON Covering 1974 to 1996, The Northern Clemency is a portrait of an era, a novel concerned with the lives of two ordinary Sheffield families, the Glovers and the Sellers, and history on the move. ♥ This book encapsulates an era and… Continue Reading “The Northern Clemency – Philip Hensher”

Category: Booker Prize, Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Political, Realist, UK authorTags: ,

The Child In Time – Ian McEwan

Posted on April 15, 2008 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Nadine In a dystopian future a child is snatched during a routine supermarket visit. ♥ “Stephen Lewis takes his three-year-old daughter to the supermarket one morning. He turns his back for just moments and she is gone. When she… Continue Reading “The Child In Time – Ian McEwan”

Category: Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Speculative Fiction, UK authorTags: ,

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

Posted on February 12, 2008 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Nadine Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel which chronicles the impact of an intersex gene on three generations of a Greek family. ♥ “Protagonist Calliope (Cal) Stephanides undertakes a rebirth as he comes to terms with his family’s history… Continue Reading “Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides”

Category: Coming of Age, Cultural, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Immigrant story, Mthyical/folklore, Psychological, Pulitzer Prize, Queer, US fictionTags:

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