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Hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a loner

31/7/2022

ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE
By Gail Honeyman

Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measures, the story of Eleanor Oliphant – an eccentric loner with a harrowing past – shows the transformative effect of small kindnesses on purging loneliness.

Published by Harper Collins 2017 | Fiction

Darwin shines in this Aussie allegorical quest

22/7/2022

ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES
By Trent Dalton

As young gravedigger Molly Hook’s odyssey unfolds, bleakness gives way to an almost mystical narrative, ripe with the comical, sensory, over-the-top feels for which Trent Dalton has become known.

Published by Fourth Estate, December 2020 | Fiction

A celebration of the complicated nature of love

5/7/2022

TIN MAN
By Sarah Winman

There are tendrils of hope and redemption in Tin Man, but there’s no escaping the loss and loneliness, prejudice and abandonment that permeates this love story, the third novel by the British author of Still Life.

Published by Tinder Press, June 2017 | Fiction

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Hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a loner

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