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/

My #6Degrees: anzlitlovers.com/2025/11/01/s... and yesterday's review that I forgot to post here: The Long Prospect by the late Elizabeth Harrower anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/31/t...

"The country was like a person tossing in a frightened sleep, half conscious yet half unconscious of the nightmare into which, on awaking, it was to be so abruptly plunged." readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/c...

Winner of the Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Publishing Prize for Fiction, Anna shows how versatile an author Angus Gaunt is: anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/24/a...

#1925Club Here's my review of Along The Road, Notes and Essays of a Tourist by Aldous Huxley... it includes the essay that Anthony Clarke had read before the war and thus halted the shelling of Sansepolcro for fear of damaging Piero della Francesca's Resurrection! anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/23/a...

The amazing story of how Piero della Francesca's Resurrection was saved from destruction in WW2, from the inimitable pen of H V Morton: anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/20/s...

I wrote about a poem that really spoke to me during a recent stay in hospital... anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/19/t...

Testimony about the effects of The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, from the perspective of a confused little boy: Mao's Town by Xie Hong anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/18/m...

A terrific author talk about the representation of older women in fiction: many thanks to Rachel Matthews, Trish Bolton and Jacquie Byron and all the staff at Kingston Library: anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/16/a...

Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major (1880) is completely different to his other novels (the famous ones). anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/15/t...

The Asian review of Books strikes my TBR again: The Morgue Keeper by Ruyan Meng (Chinese-American author)

Sunjeev Sahota’s 2021 Booker-longlisted China Room begins in the rural Punjab with a harrowing portrait of three very young Indian women confined in a tiny, dark living space called the ‘china room’... anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/07/c...

@stujallen.bsky.social Late for #TranslationThurs People from Oetimu (2019) by Felix Nesi, translated 2025 by Lara Norgaard: anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/05/p...

Is it 'rare for a writer to be this good both at crafting a sentence and at making you want to read the next one’? I don't think so. anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/04/s...

For me, more of a horror story than a satire, Malcolm Knox's The First Friend stars Stalin’s henchman, Lavrenty Beria and a fictional best friend. anzlitlovers.com/2025/10/01/t...

Have almost forgotten that today is the International Translation Day. Long live the translator!

A fine collection for the last day of #ShortStorySeptember: The Best Place on Earth by Israeli-Canadian Ayelet Tsabari of Yemeni heritage anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/30/t...

My thoughts about three translations of Isaac babel's stories anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/29/c...

#Bookthreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon A TCL #ShortStorySunday post - Also Quin-Essential! My #bookreview for two more stories in The Mysterious Mr. Quin by #agathachristie, on my #bookblog now! Thanks Lisa Hill @ http://anzlitlovers.com for #ShortStorySeptember #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal

Speculative fiction without the clichés: Here Are My Demands by Andrew Roff anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/27/h...

Thanks to author Lee Kofman for the recommendation to read Joanne Fedler's beautiful novel The Whale's Last Song anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/25/t...

My thoughts about the winner of the 2024 Penguin Literary Prize, The Occupation by Chloe Adams: anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/24/t...

The 2026 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, worth $20,000, opens on 1 October 2025, closing at 5pm on 16 November 2025. To apply or find out more information, visit Writers Victoria.

#ShortStorySeptember This collection of Southern African stories is an old one, and I have no doubt that any such collection published today would be very different. anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/22/t...

Today's author for #ShortStorySeptember is Rodney Hall, and his most eloquent collection Silence: anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/21/s...

Today on a the blog, a post for #ShortStorySeptember hosted by @anzlitlovers.bsky.social "You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it." (Albert Einstein) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/09/20/y...

Short stories from the late great Shirley Hazzard anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/20/c...

A terrific second novel from Rhett Davis: Arborescence (2025) anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/19/a...

#ShortStorySeptember: another one from my shelves: Dream Stuff by David Malouf anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/17/d...

When I read Michelle Johnston's first novel Dustfall and she was a complete unknown, I knew then that she was going to one of our top shelf authors. Her third novel The Revisionists show her at the top of her game. anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/16/t...

A rarity for #ShortStorySeptember: Potch and Colour (1944), by Katharine Susannah Prichard anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/15/p...

Colum McCann's new book Twist might make a good movie... anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/14/t...

#bookthreads #booksky 💙📚#bookstodon A TCL #ShortStorySunday - Quin-Essential. My #bookreviews for the first two #ShortStories from "The Mysterious Mr. Quin" by #AgathaChristie, on my #bookblog now. Thanks to Lisa @ anzlitlovers.com for hosting #ShortStorySeptember #BeatTheBacklist #CloakDaggerChal

Does anybody know why I'm suddenly getting hits on my 2011 review of Bi Feiyu's Three Sisters? Is there a new book? Or has the Chinese government cracked down on him? anzlitlovers.com/2011/10/06/t...

For #EdnaObrien2025 hosted by Kim at Reading Matters and Cathy at 746 Books, I read The Little Red Chairs anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/12/t...

Award-winning author Christos Tsiolkas delivers the 2025 Ray Mathew Lecture, exploring the concept of 'Fence-sitting', and its place in the modern world: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aUk...

Aussie short stories for #ShortStorySeptember from the Red Centre: To Kill a Crested Bellbird and Other Stories by David Jagger anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/11/t...

Sad to hear that this is the final year of the Hazel Rowley Fellowship, but what a magnificent legacy it has been to a great Australian biographer hazelrowley.com

#ShortStorySeptember: Four short story collections and a copycat: anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/09/f...

With thanks to Paula at Winding Up the Week (to which any booklover should subscribe!) bookjotter.com/2025/09/06/w... Do Book Reviews Sell Books? worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

@wordpress.com I have had to log in 8 times this morning, even to reply to comments on my own blog. Stop it, stop it, stop it, it is driving me crazy!

A bit of a Calvino-fest for this month's #6Degrees: anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/06/s...

A belated #20BooksOfWinter, No 20: Desertion by Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah anzlitlovers.com/2025/09/05/d...

We are looking for short story collections that are good to read and the contributions are starting to come in! Please bookmark this URL to add yours and tag it with the hashtag #ShortStorySeptember: anzlitlovers.com/category/my-...

19/20 for #20BooksOfWinter anzlitlovers.com/2025/05/06/2...