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Novellas in November Wrap Up!
No 461 The Spare Room by Helen Garner
On the surface, Helen Garner’s sharp and insightful novella The Spare Room, is a relatively straightforward tale of friendship under duress. Nicola has stage-four bowel cancer and has decided to abandon traditional treatments in favour of a punishing alternative regime. She is coming to Melbourne to attend the Theodore Institue for a three-week course of…
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No 463 The October Country by Ray Bradbury #ripxv
Ray Bradbury defies categorisation. Best known for his science fiction and fantasy works like Farenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, my first encounter with his writing was Dandelion Wine, a beautiful and evocative novel of childhood and memory. Yet again he has confounded my expectations with The October Country, his 1955 collection of nineteen macarbe…
Announcing Novellas in November!
