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Neale Lucas
Aug 3, 20213 min read
A PASSAGE NORTH.
The novel opens with our protagonist, Krishan, excited by an email from his ex-girlfriend Anjum, who he still loves. It is the first...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 27, 20212 min read
THE LABYRINTH
Winner of the 2021 Miles Franklin Award. Erica Marsden grew up in an Asylum, Melton Park. Not as a patient, her father was the chief...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 24, 20213 min read
LUCKY'S.
Vasilis Mallios is not living up to his nickname of “Lucky” when he is knocked back by the bank in his loan application. Maybe he was...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 19, 20213 min read
THE YIELD.
The novel is broken into three different narratives. Narratives that change in time but not geography. All the arcs revolve around the...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 2, 20213 min read
AT THE EDGE OF THE SOLID WORLD.
The father feels impotent, more than useless, as his wife screams and wails through the excruciating pain of childbirth. He ponders why...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 24, 20213 min read
AMNESTY.
Danny’s thoughts about wanting to meet a mermaid as a child are interrupted by the lady asking him, “What are you?” He is baffled by the...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 10, 20212 min read
THE FIFTH SEASON.
When the publicans of the Freemasons pub find out why Jack has moved to Blue Bay, they tell him he has moved to the wrong town. Jack is a...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 6, 20213 min read
THE BEAUTIFUL FALL.
“Read this now. Right now. Don’t even think about going near that door until you know what’s going on.” The letter is how Robbie copes...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 15, 20213 min read
REVENGE - MURDER IN THREE PARTS.
Revenge and Murder. Both are found in this short novel, but they are not what drives this story. This is a story about family dynamics...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 3, 20213 min read
THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS.
Agnes has cataracts, which for a woman in her profession makes things difficult at times. Agnes is a silhouette artist, a skilled...
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Neale Lucas
Mar 21, 20213 min read
CHERRY.
This novel is about the life of an unnamed narrator. A narrator who is a junkie or dope fiend. A narrator who throughout the whole book...
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Neale Lucas
Mar 12, 20213 min read
SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS.
This novel is about a Hawaiian family. Each chapter is in the first person and changes perspective between the three siblings and their...
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Neale Lucas
Mar 6, 20213 min read
LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND.
Amanda wonders if it is sexist that Clay always drives. It is their car after all. Amanda’s phone rings as if to join in with her...
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Neale Lucas
Mar 3, 20213 min read
THE VANISHING HALF.
In the quiet little farm town of Mallard, nothing ever happens. Mallard, the town where the skin of the residents gets lighter with each...
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Neale Lucas
Feb 22, 20214 min read
TELEPHONE.
Zach Wells by his own admission is dull. He admits that most people know more about nearly everything than him. Zach is a...
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Neale Lucas
Feb 11, 20214 min read
TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM.
Gifty learns that her mother has not been to church or answered the phone for a month from the pastor of the church she used to attend in...
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Neale Lucas
Feb 8, 20213 min read
DEACON KING KONG.
The novel opens with the main protagonist, Sportcoat, trying to shoot the local drug dealer in the face. True to his character he fails,...
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Neale Lucas
Feb 4, 20214 min read
THE WRECK.
It is 1819, Manchester, and the steam-powered behemoth that is the industrial revolution has stolen many of the city’s inhabitant’s jobs....
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Neale Lucas
Jan 28, 20213 min read
THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS.
So many times the blurbs on the front and back cover of novels are nothing but hyperbole, the novel failing to live up to exaggerated...
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Neale Lucas
Jan 20, 20212 min read
A CHILDREN'S BIBLE.
They are the children of the elite, on holidays with their parents in a huge mansion. And yet the children become bored, day in, day out,...
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