I recently had the pleasure of reading a short story collection titled Survival Skills written by Jean Ryan. From my review: ‘Survival Skills is one of the more unique offerings I have come across in my recent quest to read…
Survival Skills Synopsis Jean Ryan’s debut collection tells stories of nature and of human nature. The characters who inhabit Jean Ryan’s graceful, imaginative collection of stories are survivors of accidents and acts of nature, of injuries both physical and emotional….
Watering Heaven Synopsis: What would you do if you found out your girlfriend laid an egg every time she had sex? Who would you be if you were invited to a party in Beijing but had to make up a…
I recently reviewed a wonderful short story collection called Corporeality by Hollis Seamon. It is a gritty, imaginative and moving collection that really struck a chord with me. It was clear to me that the emotions lurking beneath these stories…
Corporeality Synopsis: In Corporeality, Hollis Seamon’s latest fiction collection, we meet the cat lady, the professor dealing with a plagiarist while coping with personal hardships, sibling rivalry of the unnaturally cursed kind, the dog that goes beyond everyday dog sense and scent to…
Today Booklover Book Reviews is hosting the TLC Book Tour for Wanderers : Stories by Edward Belfar. Wanderers Synopsis This exquisitely crafted collection includes several stories set in Kenya, offering tantalizing glimpses of life in that troubled but fascinating country beyond…
As part of my Short Story Summer Challenge (1 December 2012 – 28 February 2013) I will be reviewing short story collections and where possible bringing you interviews with the authors of those collections. The first short story author I’d…
Las Vegas for Vegans Book Synopsis: From Las Vegas to Melbourne, from Europe to a doomed airplane in mid-flight, from a seedy motel to the local bookstore, the true setting of these stories is the human heart. A son spends the…
Today Booklover Book Reviews has the great pleasure of hosting the TLC Book Tour for What The Zhang Boys Know, A Novel in Stories by Clifford Garstang. What The Zhang Boys Know Synopsis Set in a condominium building on the…
Love Synopsis Love is a collection of short stories, ranging from Elsewhen, in which an alternative Muslim Ireland is the home to a doomed love affair, to Wolf and Water, a Stone Age adventure, to And the Green Sea Ebbs Away, among colonists and…
The Tiny Wife Synopsis A remarkable short novella, a modern fable that is weird, uplifting and romantic all at the same time – from the author of All My Friends are Superheroes. A flamboyantly-dressed man enters a bank, and proceeds to…
Jigs and Reels is international bestselling author Joanne Harris’ first short story collection. Jigs and Reels Synopsis: Each of the twenty-two tales in this enchanting collection is a surprise and a delight, melding the poignant and the possible with the…
Karin Slaughter’s The Unremarkable Heart is a short story with stark and dark subject matter, with surprising compassion
Matthew Reilly’s Hell Island was originally released in 2005 for the Australian Books Alive initiative. The novella was given free with the purchase of any novel or book that was part the extensive Books Alive range, selected specifically to encourage reading…
