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How to be a writer when you don’t want to write literary fiction

June 2, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer 3 Comments

How to be a writer

I’ve done pretty much every kind of writing there is, apart from features writing and underwriting. My current day job is digital strategy and web content writing – I translate complex technical concepts into plain English and make sure people can find them when they search in Google. I’ve also done copywriting, article writing, fiction […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: literary fiction, on writing

Book review: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy

May 25, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy

I’m doing something a wee bit unusual today. I’m writing a review for half a book. Specifically, I’m writing a glowing review of the first half of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy. I can’t write a review of the second half because I did not read it. I did not read it […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book reviews, literary fiction

Book review: House of Rougeaux, by Jenny Jaeckel

April 29, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer 1 Comment

House of Rougeaux by Jenny Jaeckel

House of Rougeaux opens with the brutal rape and murder of a young mother right outside the door of the hut where her small children huddle in fear. Abeje and her older brother Adunbi – with barely 10 years of age between them – are left to fend for themselves as slaves on a Caribbean […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: book reviews, historical fiction, literary fiction, magical realism

Book review: Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi

February 13, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

You know that Pixar movie where the girl has all the people in her head? Mad, sad and happy or something. And it’s really funny but poignant? Well, Freshwater is sort of like that. Except it’s for adults and some of the people in the girl’s head are rather malicious. Also, they’re actually gods, born and […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: literary fiction, speculative fiction

Book review: Sign, by Colin Dray

January 24, 2018 by Rebecca Bowyer 1 Comment

Sign by Colin Dray

I fully expect Sign, by Colin Dray, to be made into a quintessential Australian road trip movie in the next few years. I’m thinking Toni Collette as the well-meaning but disturbed Aunt Dettie who takes Sam and his sister Katie from their home on the east coast, on an impromptu long, hot road trip to Perth […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: australian fiction, australian writers, literary fiction

Book review: See What I Have Done, by Sarah Schmidt

December 31, 2017 by Rebecca Bowyer Leave a Comment

See What I Have Done, by Sarah Schmidt

Remember Lizzie Borden, accused then acquitted of murdering her father and step-mother with an axe in 1892? See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt’s, retelling of the story, is intensely and wonderfully insane. Also beautifully written. When her father and step-mother are found brutally murdered on a summer morning in 1892, Lizzie Borden – thirty […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: historical fiction, literary fiction

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