@maorthofer.bsky.social HI Michael, I'd love to know your thoughts about this: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/28/h...

My first non-fiction book of 2026 was sobering, but enlightening reading. Crash of the Heavens, the Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II, by Douglas Century. anzlitlovers.com/2026/01/05/c...

I'm late for #6Degrees: anzlitlovers.com/2026/01/04/s...

My last review for 2025: Shirley Hazzard, a Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/31/s...

It's much easier to read a novel for #DoorstoppersInDecember if it becomes a page-turner in the second half: Booker nominee Flashlight by Susan Choi anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/30/f...

I've done it! Christina Dead's House of All Nations is 832 pages and I've just scraped into #DoorstoppersInDecember by three days. anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/28/h...

And so we come to the end of the Purgatorio in Dante's Divine Comedy: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/27/t...

Best wishes for the festive season! anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/25/b...

Coming up to the end of Dante's Purgatorio: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/20/t...

ANZ LitLovers Best Books of the Year: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/18/2...

Does anybody know how to subscribe to www.ontheprize.co.uk/blog? Or how to get in touch with its author, to let him know that we'd like to do so?

Another from the Gordon Burn Prize longlist: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/18/t...

Another nominee for the Gordon Burn prize: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/16/a...

Dante gets an extra guide: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/13/t...

Whites Can Dance Too, was more about techno music than I ever expected to encounter: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/13/w...

Give a booklover a literary biography of an author they love: #SpelltheMonthInBooks anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/13/s...

New review: 𝐴𝑑𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑎𝑥 𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑧𝑘𝑜𝑝𝑓: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑌𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑆ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑠, by Jonas Kreppel www.complete-review.com/reviews/yidd...

Another VPLA shortlist, another disappointment: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/10/2...

A collection of linked short stories longlisted for the #GordonBurnsPrize: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/08/n...

Longlisted for the Gordon Burn prize: Wendy Erskine's The Benefactors: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/07/t...

Continuing on with Dante's Purgatorio, and there's some lovely music in Cantos 9-16 too. anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/06/t...

#6degrees this month: anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/06/s...

Contemporary nationalism in India through the lens of a child witness to mob violence... anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/04/o...

Too late for #NovNov Konkretion (2013), by Marion May Campbell is a challenging but rewarding work of experimental fiction that demands a reader's fully engaged attention. anzlitlovers.com/2025/12/02/k...

Phew! Just managed one more for #NovNov: Flawless Jade by Barbara Hanrahan: anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/30/f...

Some lovely music in Cantos 1-8 of Dante's Purgatorio: anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/30/t...

Disappointing to see a writer described at the Australian Dictionary of Biography as known for her empathy and friendliness, employing casual antisemitism in the form of a landlord's greed being attributed to being Jewish. anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/29/a...

#NovNov The inimitable Andrei Makine: Brief Loves that Live Forever anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/28/b...

Wolfgang Siervers is a very interesting book, both from a photography point-of-view and also because of its historic value: anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/27/w...

The Medieval view of the Universe is fascinating: anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/25/t...

Olive Cotton, one of Australia's great photographers: anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/23/o...

I've finished Inferno! anzlitlovers.com/tag/dantes-i... Next week, we're off to Purgatorio.

FWIW Aussies and Kiwis on the Dublin longlist: anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/22/a...

Stunning poetry from Maxine Beneba Clarke, it's hard to do it justice: anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/21/b...

Elizabeth Harrower's third novel, and (I think) her best: The Catherine Wheel anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/20/t...

Vale Jon Bauer, author of the acclaimed Rocks in the Belly, who has died in the UK aged only 51. anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/18/v...

One of my favourite novels, musing on Memory, Imagination and creativity andreagoldsmith.com.au/2025/11/17/e...

2025 Readings Prize winners anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/17/2...

Oh bother. I made the mistake of signing up to new posts from a Substack account and now I'm being bombarded by emails about other accounts that I'm not interested in at all, and have even been signed up for some of them. Any idea on how to stop the spam other than instant deletion from my inbox?

#NovNov Cameron Hindrum's novella The Blue Cathedral is a compelling fictionalisation of the battle for Franklin River in 1983. anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/14/t...

*chuckle* Edna O'Brien's The High Road anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/13/t... makes an interesting contrast with C S Lewis's The Discarded Image anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/13/t...

#NovNov #GermanLitMonth @stujallen.bsky.social Readers need patience for a Bernhardian narrative, but fortunately mine lasted until (none the wiser about who dunnit, I got to the end. Klausen (2002), by Andreas Maier, 2010 translation by Kenneth J Northcott anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/11/k...

An intriguing work of experimental fiction in the speculative fiction space: not my usual reading fare but I'm glad I ventured out of my comfort zone! anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/10/e...

I'm not just reading The Divine Comedy, it's the catalyst for other reading too: anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/08/t...

#NovNov Man of Letters (Dog Rock 3, 2012) is Bk 3 in David Foster’s comic novel series set in a declining small town called Dog Rock in NSW, but it doesn’t seem to matter that I haven’t read the first two in the series. anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/07/m...

An intriguing collection of linked short stories by Australian author Merav Fima imagining a literary salon in Jerusalem: anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/06/l...

Hazel Rowley Fellowship applications close on 16 November 2025, for more info see writersvictoria.org.au/hazel-rowley...

Novellas read so far in 2025 for #NovNov anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/04/n...

My posts so far for my #BuddyRead of Dante's The Divine Comedy anzlitlovers.com/tag/buddyread/