Gretchen Shirm is a Sydney writer and critic. Her first book was Having Cried Wolf.
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HarperCollins; $29.99
‘The Anchoress’ by Robyn Cadwallader
Robyn Cadwallader has crafted The Anchoress with a scrupulous attention to historical detail and embroidered it with the minutiae of 13th-century life. The achievement is all the...
Virago Press; $29.99
‘Lila’ by Marilynne Robinson
The first two instalments of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead series, Gilead (2004) and Home (2008), won her the Pulitzer and Orange prizes respectively. Despite the weight of...
