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Book cover, Departure(s), Julian Barnes

Departures(s)

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Book cover, Departure(s), Julian BarnesDeparture(s)
by Julian Barnes,
Jonathan Cape 2026

Reviewed by Sandra Renew

Julian Barnes’s latest book adds to his list of more than 20 well-regarded novels and non-fiction, including The Sense of an Ending which won the 2011 Booker Prize. He was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime contribution to literature in 2011 and the Légion d’honneur in 2017.

In Departure(s) Barnes employs an interesting narrative structure. There is detail of the changing relationships of the … Read more »

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Book cover featuring abstract artwork of white swans flying

Fly, Wild Swans

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Book cover featuring abstract artwork of white swans flyingFly, Wild Swans
Jung Chang

Reviewed by Wendy Tucker

This is the long-awaited sequel to Wild Swans, published in 1991 to worldwide acclaim. Wild Swans told the story of three generations of Chinese women, Chang’s grandmother, her mother and herself and interwove the modern history of China into these very personal memoirs. This was the first insight that most of the West had into the cruelty, terror and insanity of … Read more »

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Painting of a petrol station in the rural landscape.

Garnet book launch

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Painting of a petrol station in the rural landscape.Local writer, Jen Severn, has a new book out in March – a novel called Garnet about a small country town peopled with eccentric, lovable, difficult, ordinary and extraordinary characters – and a few evil developers for good measure. This short novel (an early manuscript was shortlisted in the Viva La Novella Prize in 2022) packs the emotional punch of a much larger book. It is quiet but … Read more »

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Book recommendations 2025

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Your summer reading list from The Triangle team Marita

Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen, 2016. I borrowed this after watching the movie Springsteen: Deliver me from Nowhere. The book provides deep insight into the life and career of The Boss and is quite raw.

Yoga in Practice, Katy Appleton, 2004. I bought this book and a pile of Katy’s videos when I had a back injury over 15 years ago. I decided to revisit it … Read more »

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Book cover: Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

Memorial Days

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Book cover: Memorial Days by Geraldine BrooksMemorial Days
by Geraldine Brooks

Memorial Days is a memoir about grief by one of our most admired contemporary women writers. Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, is an American public holiday to remember those who died in wars. On Memorial Day in 2019, prize-winning author, Australian- American Geraldine Brooks, received a phone call that would forever change her. Brooks was working intensely and was halfway through her novel Horse, and so … Read more »

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Michelle de Kretser Theory and Practice book cover

Theory and Practice

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Michelle de Kretser Theory and Practice book coverTheory and Practice
Michelle de Kretser
Text Publishing

Review by Wendy Tucker

This is Michelle de Kretser’s seventh novel and her second one to win the Stella Prize (for writing by women and non-binary authors). In this novel, de Kretser is again experimenting with form as she did in Scary Monsters where one story paralleled the other. I feel that this is primarily a novel with a splash of … Read more »

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