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Neale Lucas
Aug 20, 20204 min read
UTOPIA AVENUE.
If you grew up loving live music. If you grew up, not being able to sleep a week before your favourite band were playing at your city. If...
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Neale Lucas
Aug 3, 20205 min read
APEIROGON
The last sentence of the fist chapter says it all. “Geography here is everything”. Geography here in this part of the world can get you...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 19, 20202 min read
STONE SKY GOLD MOUNTAIN
Ying awakens to the sound of pickaxes chipping away at rock. She holds her eyes shut, trying to hold on to the dream she was having....
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Neale Lucas
Jul 14, 20203 min read
THE FISH GIRL.
When Junius asks the fisherman how old his daughter is. The father replies with hand signals. Signalling to Junius how tall she is,...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 9, 20204 min read
THE ANIMALS AT LOCKWOOD MANOR.
Lockwood Manor has four floors, and ninety-two rooms. Many of these rooms are empty and unused, “Lockwood had too many empty rooms. They...
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Neale Lucas
Jul 3, 20203 min read
THE WAY HOME.
In Roman mythology, Aeneas is the ancestor of Romulus and Remus, the twins who founded Rome. In Greek Mythology Aeneas, like Hercules,...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 27, 20203 min read
NO ONE.
Ostensibly this short novel is about a man wracked with guilt because he thinks he has hit somebody with his car and never stopped to...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 24, 20203 min read
ISLANDS.
Islands is about the disintegration of a marriage and how it affects the whole family. We see the decline and eventual collapse of the...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 17, 20203 min read
THE RETURNS.
The two protagonists of this novel meet in unusual circumstances. Elizabeth has, I suppose you would call it a fainting spell, and Trevor...
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Neale Lucas
Jun 7, 20203 min read
THE WHITE GIRL.
Odette Brown and her twelve-year-old granddaughter, Sissy, share the same single bed. Squeezed together almost merging into one. While...
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Neale Lucas
May 30, 20204 min read
THE RAIN HERON.
“Daniel thought about what he knew of rain herons – how in the stories they were associated with rainfall, abundance and harvests, but...
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Neale Lucas
May 28, 20204 min read
ACT OF GRACE.
Toohey, a veteran of three tours of Iraq, has brought more home with him this time than just the multiple pieces of shrapnel that are...
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Neale Lucas
May 21, 20204 min read
THE BOATMAN AND OTHER STORIES.
Buddy read with Nat K and Kev Ansbro. “The Boatman and Other Stories” is the first taste I have had of Billy O’Callaghan’s writing. This...
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Neale Lucas
May 18, 20202 min read
THE ADVENTURES OF CHINA IRON.
I have not read “Martin Fierro” the poem by José Hernández that Gabriela Cabezón Cámara uses as a base for her narrative. I do know that...
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Neale Lucas
May 7, 20204 min read
THE MEMORY POLICE.
The novel opens with the protagonist’s mother telling her that she too will soon forget something. Something of hers will “disappear” as...
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Neale Lucas
May 2, 20203 min read
WOLFE ISLAND.
With Wolfe Island Lucy Treloar addresses two problems which we, as global citizens face, and have the potential to develop into more dire...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 26, 20203 min read
HAMNET.
William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet four years after his son Hamnet died at the age of eleven. Hamnet and Hamlet are the same name. Now I...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 21, 20204 min read
DJINN PATROL ON THE PURPLE LINE.
The title of this novel may be a little misleading, a little baffling. This wonderful book is about children who are going missing from...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 18, 20203 min read
BONE CHINA.
Hester Why has answered an advertisement for a nurse and maid, moving from London to Cornwall, the other end of the country. A place is...
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Neale Lucas
Apr 13, 20204 min read
PINBALL 1973.
The second short novel opens with an unnamed protagonist again. He is pondering what his life was like ten years earlier. Remembering how...
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