Category: Philosophical

Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead – Olga Tokarczuk

Posted on September 11, 2024 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo Janina lives alone in a desolate, snowy part of Poland near the Czech border. She studies astrology, over analyses everything and has a fiercely protective nature for the animals of the region. She becomes concerned when the police don’t… Continue Reading “Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead – Olga Tokarczuk”

Category: Art, Booker Prize, Cultural, Environmental fiction, Existentialist, Faith & Religion, Female Experience, Gothic, Humour, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, National Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Satire, Thriller, Translated, Unreliable NarratorTags: ,

All Fours – Miranda July

Posted on August 14, 2024 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel A 45 year old artist plans a roadie from LA to New York. Twenty minutes into the drive, she exits the freeway, rents a motel room, and undertakes a transformation of the room and herself, leading her on a… Continue Reading “All Fours – Miranda July”

Category: Art, Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Environmental fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Feminism, Humour, National Book Awards, Philosophical, Psychological, Queer, Surreal, US fiction, Women's PrizeTags: , ,

Lioness – Emily Perkins

Posted on April 20, 2024 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Therese Thorn is a luxury homewares retailer and married to a wealthy man who is accused of corruption. Newly 50, Therese must now take control of her life and reinvent herself, with the help of her kind-of-muse and friend,… Continue Reading “Lioness – Emily Perkins”

Category: Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Feminism, Humour, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, NZ Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, ThrillerTags: , ,

Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton

Posted on April 15, 2024 by

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READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS A guerilla gardening group and an immigrant billionaire are both using beautiful New Zealand land illegally. Unsurprisingly they discover one another and clash but when trouble strikes there is benefit in them colluding. A political and eco thriller about… Continue Reading “Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton”

Category: Contemporary fiction, Environmental fiction, Female Experience, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, NZ Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Satire, ThrillerTags: , ,

Chain-Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adiej-Brenvah

Posted on January 25, 2024 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Jo Gladiators fight to the death to win their freedom In America’s private prisons. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, a televised, profit-making programme. This book is an exploration of the American prison… Continue Reading “Chain-Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adiej-Brenvah”

Category: Adventure, Allegory, Dystopian, Female Experience, Literary fiction, National Book Awards, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Queer, Satire, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, US fiction

Netherland – Joseph O’Neill

Posted on November 28, 2009 by

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 READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Suzy In Netherland, we follow immigrant Dutchman Hans van den Broek, a financial analyst and cricket enthusiast, across a period of social turmoil following the 911 terror attacks on New York City. At the same time, Hans’ wife Rachel… Continue Reading “Netherland – Joseph O’Neill”

Category: Booker Prize, Colonisation, Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Immigrant story, Irish, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Realist, US fictionTags:

Oooooo…!!! – Hone Tuwhare

Posted on October 25, 2009 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel A collection of poetry from Hone Tuwhare (Nga Puhi iwi, hapu Ngati Korokoro, Ngati Tautahi, Te Popoto and Te Uri-O-Hau). ❚ “This book has been collated from a large collection of Māori poet Hone Tuwhare’s writing, discovered sprawled over… Continue Reading “Oooooo…!!! – Hone Tuwhare”

Category: Art, Cultural, Environmental fiction, Kiwi lit, Māori Fiction, Philosophical, Poetry, PoliticalTags: ,

Summertime – J M Coetzee

Posted on October 12, 2009 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON A fictionalised memoir detailing the life of John Coetzee written from the point of view of the biographer. Told from the perspective of five people who have known him including a married woman with whom he had an affair, his cousin… Continue Reading “Summertime – J M Coetzee”

Category: Australian author, Booker Prize, Experimental fiction, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Philosophical, Postmodern Literature, Psychological, Satire, South African, Unreliable NarratorTags: ,

Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel

Posted on September 27, 2009 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON A fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII. ❚ “Wolf Hall is primarily about Thomas Cromwell who in real life was a disliked man who worked for King Henry. He orchestrated… Continue Reading “Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel”

Category: Booker Prize, Faith & Religion, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, UK authorTags: ,

The Quickening Maze – Adam Foulds

Posted on September 20, 2009 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON The true story of poet John Clare’s incarceration in London’s Epping Forest, a mental asylum run on the reformist principles of occupational therapy. Lord Alfred Tennyson had his brother treated there and the book bases its storyline on the speculation of… Continue Reading “The Quickening Maze – Adam Foulds”

Category: Art, Booker Prize, Environmental fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Psychological, UK authorTags: ,

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