Category: Humour

Hoods Landing – Laura Vincent

Posted on April 8, 2026 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS In the rural reaches of Auckland, the women of the eclectic Gordon family gather for Christmas. Rita, the 50-year-old baby of the family, is planning to tell them she has cancer. Drifting between past and present, she considers the… Continue Reading “Hoods Landing – Laura Vincent”

Category: Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Gothic, Humour, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Māori Fiction, NZ Book Awards, QueerTags: , ,

Diary Of A Void – Emi Yagi

Posted on September 6, 2023 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jodie A translated work in which a Japanese office worker fakes a pregnancy to avoid menial cleaning and tidying jobs that her male counterparts are never burdened with. However, the hoax becomes all-absorbing, and the boundary between her lie and… Continue Reading “Diary Of A Void – Emi Yagi”

Category: Female Experience, Humour, Japanese, Literary fiction, Magical Realism

No One Is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood

Posted on September 25, 2021 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON A woman with new online prominence grapples with the reality of the cyber world and real life ⫸ “The internet, referred to as ‘the portal’, is given a life of itself in this novel, a place where the unnamed protagonist is… Continue Reading “No One Is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood”

Category: Booker Prize, Humour, Literary fiction, US fiction, Women's Prize

A Fraction Of The Whole – Steve Toltz

Posted on September 15, 2008 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of how he, his scheming father Martin and his crazy Uncle Terry upset an entire continent ♥ “For most of his life, Jasper Dean couldn’t decide whether to pity, hate, love,… Continue Reading “A Fraction Of The Whole – Steve Toltz”

Category: Australian author, Booker Prize, Family drama, Humour, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Satire, Unreliable NarratorTags:

Darkmans – Nicola Barker

Posted on October 5, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON A jester haunts this book, possessing the characters at inconvenient moments. They are a collection of interesting folk living in Ashby, England. An erratic, embitted old man; a drug dealer; a chiropodist with mysterious bruises; a man with schizophrenia; a boy building… Continue Reading “Darkmans – Nicola Barker”

Category: Booker Prize, Contemporary fiction, Experimental fiction, Ghost story, Humour, Literary fiction, Psychological, Surreal, UK authorTags: ,

She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb

Posted on July 24, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Nadine The trials and tribulations of Dolores Price from age 4 to age 40 are detailed in this 1992 book with saw wide appeal after being chosen as an Oprah’s Bookclub book. ⚈ “Dolores Price has a harrowing life. Born in… Continue Reading “She’s Come Undone – Wally Lamb”

Category: Contemporary fiction, Female Experience, Humour, Psychological, US fiction

Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer

Posted on May 29, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Suzy Everything is Illuminated is the transformation of the author’s own attempts to trace his Jewish-Ukrainian ancestry and the terrible truth about the fate of his extended family who stayed behind in the old country when the Nazis closed… Continue Reading “Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer”

Category: Coming of Age, Contemporary fiction, Historical Fiction, Holocaust fiction, Humour, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Postmodern Literature, US fiction, War storyTags:

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