Do you start singing a certain Kenny Loggins hit when you hear the words ‘comfort zone’? I do. Even though comfort and danger are pretty much opposites… Anyhoo, my comfort zone is contemporary literature. I don’t stray often but there have been some notable (and excellent) exceptions in the last year or so –
Speculative Fiction
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
I’m Starved for You by Margaret Atwood
Historical Fiction
Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar
Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett
True Crime
This House of Grief by Helen Garner
Magic Realism
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
Memoir
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Gothic
The Engagement by Chloe Hooper (okay, I read this ages ago but scenes still stick in my mind…)
YA
Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett (another I read years ago but I’ve included it because it is very, very good)
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