Ann Skea reviews...
 

Portraits In Fiction
by A.S. Byatt
 

Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
by Richard Flanagan
 

The Feel of Steel
by Helen Garner
 

The Pickup
by Nadine Gordimer
 

By the Sea
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
 

Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame
by Michael King
 

Out of the Ashes
by Michael Morpurgo
 

Mary Shelley
by Miranda Seymour
 

Dirt Music
by Tim Winton