Posted in Book Reviews, T.A.G. Hungerford Award winners, tagged nathan hobby, TAG Hungerford Award, the fur on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I actually read The Fur about four months ago, but because I had yet to crank up my blog at that stage, I never got around to reviewing it. Here, then, is my belated review of Nathan Hobby’s first novel, which won the TAG Hungerford Award in 2002.
The first thing to be said is that [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Other Book Reviews, T.A.G. Hungerford Award winners, tagged TAG Hungerford Award, simone lazaroo, the world waiting to be made, TAG Hungerford Award Winner on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“The World Waiting to be Made” is Simone Lazaroo’s TAG Hungerford Award winning first novel. Of the four Hungerford winners I’ve now read, I contend this to be the best. The book appears to be a bildungsroman tale of Lazaroo’s own life, although there is a note in the front saying that some things have [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Bruce L. Russell, T.A.G. Hungerford Award winners, tagged Bruce L. Russell, TAG Hungerford Award, TAG Hungerford Award Winner on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I liked Russell’s “Channelling Henry” so much that I made a point of hunting down his earlier novels, the TAG Hungerford Award-winning “Jacob’s Air, and his second novel, “The Chelsea Manifesto.” “Jacob’s Air” was the 1995 winner of the Hungerford Award (which is for a writer who hasn’t yet published a novel length work and [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Fremantle Press, Other Book Reviews, T.A.G. Hungerford Award winners, tagged TAG Hungerford Award, brenda walker, TAG Hungerford Award Winner on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Brenda Walker’s first novel, published in 1991, has the distinction of being the inaugural T.A.G. Hungerford Award winner. Set in Perth in the late eighties, it is a strange and slender novel of two people: a barrister named Tom O’Brien, and a writer called Anna Penn. The story is told in a distinctively dispassionate style [...]
