Queensland Reviewers Collective

October 2021
Young Adult

100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze by Clayton Zane Comber

Reviewed by Antonella Townsend 100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze, by Clayton Zane Comber, is written for young adults, but even if readers are decades older, they will enjoy being immersed into the world of Xander Maze and his friends. Xander is clearly ‘on the spectrum’, his father died when he was a toddler so

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October 4, 2021 No Comments
Literature

The Magician by Colm Tóibín

Reviewed by Rod McLary Thomas Mann — the subject of this biographical novel by Colm Tóibín — is regarded as a major 20th-century German writer, perhaps one of the best known of the so-called “Exilliteratur” writers — Germans in exile who opposed the Hitler regime. Author of works such as Buddenbrooks (1901), Death in Venice

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October 2, 2021 No Comments
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