Everyday Madness
Reviewed onWhen the garrulous and slightly annoying Gloria stops eating, sleeping, and talking, her recently-made-redundant salesman husband Bernard does not know what to do. Their decades-long marriage has produced a son, …
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Shine
Reviewed onAn exuberant celebration of the joy and chaos of everyday family life – the highs, the lows and everything in between. Detailed, delightful illustrations by Ruth de Vos expertly capture …
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The Last Bookshop
Reviewed onThe Last Bookshop is a tale for all those who love books and reading, with an added dash of romance. Cait Copper is the twenty-something owner of city-based bookshop Book …
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Women of a Certain Rage
Reviewed onTwenty Australian women from a wide range of backgrounds, beliefs and ages have contributed to a thought-provoking anthology on the notion of rage and our complex relationship to it. Among …
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The Sensation
Reviewed onIn this follow up to The Subjugate, The Sensation further fleshes out a near-future San Francisco: think Silicon Valley gone feral. The technology for neural implants has been hacked and …
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How to be an Author
Reviewed onHow To Be An Author provides a detailed roadmap of the writing journey, illuminating every imaginable aspect of authorship. Expert insights from Georgia Richter (publishing), Deborah Hunn (teaching), and Claire …
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Eye of a Rook
Reviewed onIn The Waves, Virginia Woolf writes: “But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of …
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Angels Weep
Reviewed onColin Falconer is an internationally best-selling author of epic historical fiction and – as he himself says – is best known for his work in this genre. That may soon …
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Beneath the Trees
Reviewed onAnother ripping yarn from Cristy Burne sure to delight fans of her previous adventure stories To the Lighthouse and Off the Track, all published by Fremantle Press. When four young …
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Glass Cabbages
Reviewed onAnn Gilchrist mixes familiar imagery with a broad landscape of settings in this enticing collection of poetry inspired by her life experiences. Glass Cabbages presents the reader with a diverse …
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