Best Australian books 2008
If you are looking for reading material over the summer break, Radio National’s Book Show has lists of books recommended by listeners as the best of the past year. The fiction list includes Tim Winton’s Breath, Graeme Base’s Enigma and Shaun Tan’s Tales from Outer Suburbia among the suggestions. I would add Debra Adelaide’s A Household Guide to Dying to any list of reading ideas this summer. It’s at once poignant, funny and deeply moving. Here’s a profile of Debra Adelaide and the book, although it does contain a spoiler.
