Lisa Hill

#BuddyRead – ANZ LitLovers LitBlog Posts about #BuddyRead written by Lisa Hill

My posts so far for my #BuddyRead of Dante's The Divine Comedy
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Six Degrees of Separation, from We Have Always Lived in the Castle… This month’s #6Degrees, hosted by Kate from Books Are My Favourite and Best, begins with the starter book We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (of The Lottery fame).  I have …

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...

Good luck, Amanda, all the best for a good recovery with your champion husband by your side.

Hi Rohan, will do, but it's time for bed here in Oz!

Oh *pout* I can't get the player to work like it usually does. I've tried on two browsers but clicking Play doesn't work.

Yay! I'm a long time reader of her blog and now I get to hear her voice!!

Well, that looks cosy:) I particularly like the arrangement of the paintings, you have an eye for it!

CROOKED CROSS by Sally Carson. Published by Persephone.

"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."
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Anna (2025), by Angus Gaunt Winner of the Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Publishing Prize for Fiction, Anna shows how versatile an author Angus Gaunt is: it’s completely different to his previous satirical novella Black Rabbit (202…

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...

Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (1925), by Aldous Huxley Serendipity, that’s what it was that led me from here and here to this delicious collection of essays by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), which entirely by happenstance coincides with the #1925Club…

#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!

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Thanks for this, I did not pick up on the Shakespearean quotation when I read and reviewed Gravel Heart back in 2022. anzlitlovers.com/category/wri...

Sensational Snippets: A Traveller in Italy (1964) by H V Morton As you might know if you followed my conversation with Jonathan on a recent post, I was sharing my experience of the way memory of the written word can emerge at just the right time when it’s…

The amazing story of how Piero della Francesca's Resurrection was saved from destruction in WW2, from the inimitable pen of H V Morton:
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‘Transfiguration and Death’ (1978) by Evan Jones, from The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse (1981) edited by Harry Heseltine Like most people, I suppose, I’m not at my best when I’m not well, but what helped me to tolerate my recent experience sharing a hospital ward with a dementia patient was remembering a …

I wrote about a poem that really spoke to me during a recent stay in hospital...
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Mao’s Town (2018 #1 Mao’s Children Trilogy) by Xie Hong I’m always keen to read novels by Chinese authors living in China rather than those filtered by expat experience in the US or UK.  So (back in 2020 when I was on Twitter rather than BlueSky) …

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
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Author Talk: Rachel Matthews; Jacquie Byron and Trish Bolton at Kingston Library I made it! Thanks to the goodness of my chauffeurs, I’ve just been to a lively and thought-provoking author talk at Kingston Library, and finally got to meet one of my favourite authors, Rach…

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...

Thank you! I wonder if Hardy is still read in schools, I hope so:)

The Trumpet-Major (1880), by Thomas Hardy Well!  I did not expect to end up in hospital this week!! I have been suffering a severe flare up of a very unsexy malady for a fortnight but it was this Monday when the GP told me off for being 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)

China Room (2021) by Sunjeev Sahota 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 &#821…

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...

People from Oetimu (2019) by Felix Nesi, translated 2025 by Lara Norgaard People from Oetimu came my way via a review from Stu at Winston’s Dad. Felix Nesi (b. 1988) is an author from Indonesian West Timor, and the novel is set there, on the western part of the isl…

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

It does look interesting, I can't wait to see what you think of it.

Well, at least I've already something of his, though I'm not in a rush to read him again. (Eurotrash because it was longlisted for the 2025 International Booker.)

I can't read a paywalled article, but I can guess. Bizarre...

Six Degrees of Separation, from I Want Everything to… This month’s #6Degrees, hosted by Kate from Books are my Favourite and Best, starts with I Want Everything by Dominic Amerena.  I’ve chosen the UK cover, different to the US one on Kate&#8217…

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.
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Amazingly prescient. We're reading it now in translation but it was actually first published a decade ago.

The First Friend (2024), by Malcolm Knox Longlisted for the ARA Historical Fiction Prize and the UK Walter Scott Historical Novel Prize, The First Friend by journalist, author and SMH columnist Malcolm Knox, is a black comedy starring Sta…

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

The Best Place on Earth (2016) by Ayelet Tsabari Aiming to complete one more post before #ShortStorySeptember ends, I was plodding through Isaac Babel’s Odessa Stories when the Asian Review of Books popped into my inbox and with its very fi…

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...

Collected Stories (1957) by Isaac Babel, translated by Walter Morison It might seem like excess, but I have three collections of stories by Isaac Babel (1894-1940): Collected Stories, translated by Walter Morison and with an introduction by Lionel Trilling.  Publishe…

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

A TCL #ShortStorySunday post – Also Quin-Essential! Review for the second two Short Stories in “The Mysterious Mr. Quin” by Agatha Christie. Goodreads Summary: "A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition?

#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