Category: Historical Fiction
Posted on January 29, 2025
by thefreerangebookclub
1 Comment
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel A study of Germany’s reunification via a collection of people who all represent a different faction or ideology. Kaspar is a West German bookseller whose wife dies. He discovers and tracks down newly discovered family members and attempts to… Continue Reading “The Granddaughter – Bernhard Schlink”
Posted on November 15, 2024
by thefreerangebookclub
1 Comment
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie Irene Redfield is a black woman living an affluent lifestyle in Harlem. She runs into Clare, an old friend who is “passing” as white and married to a racist. Clare struggles with the disconnection from her community and culture,… Continue Reading “Passing – Nella Larsen”
Category: Classic literature, Cultural, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Psychological, Queer, Realist, Unreliable Narrator, US fictionTags: Free Range Bookclub 2024
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Beginning with a soldier injured in the WWI trenches and observing three subsequent generations of family, Held is a kaleidoscopic narrative of memories, dreams and the supernatural. Held together by symbols, metaphors and motifs rather than a traditional linear narrative, Michaels… Continue Reading “Held – Anne Michaels”
Category: Art, Booker Prize, Canadian Author, Environmental fiction, Faith & Religion, Family drama, Female Experience, Ghost story, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Psychological, Stream Of Consciousness, War storyTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2024
READ FOR BOOKERTHON It’s 1961 and the people of Dutch town Overijssel are adjusting to life post war. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel leads a life of routine and discipline. Much to her disgust, her brother Louis dumps his new… Continue Reading “The Safekeep – Yael van der Wouden”
Category: Booker Prize, Cultural, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Holocaust fiction, Literary fiction, Psychological, Queer, Thriller, War story, Women's PrizeTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2024
READ FOR BOOKERTHON A re-imagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but told from the point of view of the slave, Jim, or James as he prefers to be called in this book. James escapes his owner when he hears he is to be… Continue Reading “James – Percival Everett”
Category: Adventure, Booker Prize, Cultural, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Humour, Literary fiction, Metafiction, National Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Pulitzer Prize, Satire, US fictionTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2024
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Suzy Set in the 1580s, this book is about Shakespeare and the events that led to him writing the play Hamlet. It is told not from his point of view, but from that of his wife, who is left in… Continue Reading “Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell”
Category: Art, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Historical Fiction, Irish, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Psychological, UK author, Women's PrizeTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2024
READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZE Sashi is a 16-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil with aspirations to be a doctor. Even when civil unrest ensues and her four brothers are caught up in the violence, Sashi still finds a way to help people, at great risk to… Continue Reading “Brotherless Night – V V Ganeshananthan”
READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZE Kate Grenville gives life to her grandmother Dolly Maunder by documenting her life in New South Wales at the turn of last century. Her obstacles as a woman of the time and her successes as a strong minded woman are… Continue Reading “Restless Dolly Maunder – Kate Grenville”
READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Pet is a psychological thriller, about 12-year-old Justine and her fascination with her glamorous new teacher Mrs Price. She, and many of her classmates, are determined to be the teacher’s pet, clambering to help or do after-school jobs and… Continue Reading “Pet – Catherine Chidgey”
Category: Coming of Age, Cultural, Faith & Religion, Female Experience, Historical Fiction, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, NZ Book Awards, Political, Psychological, Thriller, Unreliable NarratorTags: Free Range Bookclub 2024, Kiwi Fiction, Ockham NZ Book Awards
READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Backwaters addresses the consequences of feeling distant from your ethnic heritage. It starts with fourth generation New Zealander, Laura, being asked “but where are you from from?” New Zealand has been her family’s birth place and home for generations,… Continue Reading “Backwaters – Emma Ling Sidnam”
Category: Colonisation, Coming of Age, Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Family drama, Female Experience, Historical Fiction, Immigrant story, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Māori Fiction, NZ Book Awards, Political, Psychological, QueerTags: Free Range Bookclub 2024, Kiwi Fiction, Ockham NZ Book Awards
Recent Comments