The Stranger
Book Review: The Stranger introduces a new voice in the emerging Feminist Western genre
Question: What do you get if you mash up Charlotte Wood‘s The Natural Way of Things, Anna North’s Outlawed and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale? Answer: Kathryn Hore’s latest novel, The Stranger. Set in an unspecified frontier-like future on an unnamed continent, in a small, gated town called Darkwater, The Stranger is a twist on the classic story prompt, a stranger comes…
The AU Review’s Top Ten Books of 2017
- January 8, 2018
- Books
- Features
- ABC Books
- Anna Spargo-Ryan
- Being Here
- David Free
- Detours
- Down the Hume
- Get Poor Slow
- Hachette Australia
- HarperCollins Australia
- Homegoing
- Jennifer Egan
- Manhattan Beach
- Marie Darrieussecq
- Melanie Raabe
- Millefiori
- Omar Musa
- Pan MacMillan
- Penguin
- Peter Polites
- Text Publishing
- The Good Girl Stripped Bare
- The Gulf
- The Stranger
- Tim Rogers
- Tracey Spicer
- Yaa Gyasi
Happy New Year everyone. Now we’ve packed away the Christmas decorations and finished the last of the festive treats, we in the book review team at the AU thought it’d be a good time to look back at some of our favourite books of the last year. A veritable smorgasbord of great books were released…
Book Review: The Stranger by Melanie Raabe is a well wrought suspenseful thriller
She doesn’t know him. He knows everything about her. Philip Peterson, a wealthy businessman disappears without trace on a trip to South America. Seven years later he’s back. Or is he? The Stranger starts with a memory, and these flashbacks creep in throughout the novel. Not too far into proceedings ‘The Stranger’ is found, appearing amid…
