The Diviner Comedy, Dante returns to life in the year 2000.
Naomi Ishiguro, the daughter of Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, delivers her first novel, and Anna Georgeâs
Tipping centres on a sexting scandal at a co-ed private school in Melbourne. Happy reading.
NON-FICTION PICK OF THE WEEK
Turns Out, Iâm Fine
Judith Lucy, Scribner, $32.99
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Judith Lucy is well-known for her martini-dry humour as a stand-up comedian, but her reflection on turning 50 goes beyond comedy. Yes, itâs shot through with her trademark wit, but itâs got a lot more going for it as well.
She takes us back to her Perth childhood, her adoptive parents and tracking down her natural ones, relationships and friends, but itâs her break-up with her partner (who had been stealing from her bank account) that is the pivotal event that leaves her crying during a Pilates class and vowing to change her life. Combined with menopause it becomes a âfull-blown mid-life crisisâ. There are really funny lines and you can hear that voice coming off the page, but itâs also poignant, meditative and thoughtful in the way she navigates her way towards a new life and the importance of nature and the cause of climate change in that life.