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Review: A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists, by Jane Rawson

August 7, 2020 by Rebecca Bowyer 1 Comment

A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists by Jane Rawson

I watched an interview with Jane Rawson on ABC’s The Mix recently and was struck by her comment that she tries to insert humour into climate fiction, which is not an easy thing to do. After reading her novel, A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists I can happily attest that she absolutely succeeded. […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian Women Writers Challenge, australian writers, dystopia, humour, speculative fiction

Review: Battle Beyond the Dolestars, by Chris McCrudden

July 26, 2020 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Battle Beyond the Dolestars by Chris McCrudden

Battle Beyond the Dolestars is deliciously funny, clever and quirky while also being viciously political in a subversive way. Fans of Terry Pratchett, Jasper Fforde and Douglas Adams will love this novel. The second book in the Battlestar Suburbia series, Battle Beyond the Dolestars is set thousands of years into the future where the machines […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book reviews, humour, science fiction, speculative fiction

Review: The Helpline, by Katherine Collette

December 31, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Helpline by Katherine Collette

The Helpline, by Katherine Collette is plain good fun. Set in a local council in one of Melbourne’s bayside surbubs, Geraldine is the unwilling newest employee on the Senior Citizen’s Helpline. It irritates her that some of the local residents seem to be calling just for a chat. It’s so… inefficient. The Helpline is somewhere […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian Women Writers Challenge, book reviews, contemporary fiction, humour, light reads

Book review: You Wish, by Lia Weston

April 11, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer 2 Comments

You Wish by Lia Weston

What if you could erase your ex from your history entirely? What if you could go back and change that hideous choice of wedding dress you made 30 years ago? Or watch your deceased child grow into adulthood, picture by picture? You wish. Enter IF, the Melbourne-based creative team, headed by Tom Lash, which can […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian Women Writers Challenge, book reviews, contemporary fiction, humour, light reads

Stand-up comedy in print: Kitty Flanagan’s ‘Bridge Burning & other hobbies’

March 24, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Bridge burning and other hobbies by Kitty Flanagan

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it gave me plenty of laughs when I was very much in need of them.  Kitty Flanagan is one of my favourite comedians. Reading Bridge Burning & other hobbies was like enjoying a stand-up routine in print – and every bit as funny! The first time I came across Kitty Flanagan was […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Australian Women Writers Challenge, book reviews, humour, memoir

Book review: The Daily Struggles of Archie Adams (aged 2 1/4), by Katie Kirby

March 13, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Daily Struggles of Archie Adams by Katie Kirby

Beware: This book will make you laugh out loud and you’ll want to read excerpts from every second page to anyone standing near you. You might want to warn your nearest and dearest. I bought Katie Kirby’s second book, The Daily Struggles of Archie Adams (aged 2 1/4), while we were in the middle of renovating […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book reviews, humour, memoir, Parenting skills, toddlers

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