Australian + New Zealand literature

Book Reviews

• Murray Bail: Eucalyptus
  - an Australian fairy tale, a love story
• Murray Bail: Homesickness*
  - an Australian tour group in a surreal world
• Murray Bail: The Pages
  - a story of philosophy, farming, and travel
• Marshall Browne: Inspector Anders
  The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders; Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools
• Marshall Browne: Rendezvous at Kamakura Inn
  - a Japanese policeman faces corruption, mystery and violence
• Garry Disher: Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine
  - short Australian crime fiction
• Helen Garner: The Spare Room
  - a novel about coming to terms with death and dying
• Linda Jaivin: Eat Me
  - a comedy about the sex lives of four Sydney women
• Catherine Jinks: The Inquisitor
  - a murder mystery set in medieval France
• Christopher J. Koch: Highways to a War
  - a novel about a war photographer in Vietnam and Cambodia
• C.K. Stead: The Death of the Body*
  - a clever, entertaining metafiction
• C.K. Stead: The Secret History of Modernism
  - looking back at life as a student in 1950s London
• C.K. Stead: Talking About O'Dwyer
  - fifty years to resolve a Maori curse from World War II
• Paul Thomas: Guerilla Season
  - a comic thriller about terrorism in New Zealand

See also: Australia | New Zealand