Because I Love Him
Reviewed onAshlee Donohue’s Because I Love Him offers a deeply personal and compelling account of love, loss, motherhood, addiction, and domestic violence. As a proud Dunghutti woman from Kempsey, New South …
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The Players
Reviewed onOpening at the University of Western Australia in the mid 1990s, the early chapters of Deborah Pike’s The Players capture the essence of my own salad days, spent at the …
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Hamlets and Towers
Reviewed onThe best poets have often been inspired by travel and foreign shores, using their experiences to construct a personal mythology of truth while exploring themes of discovery, culture, and the …
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Bullet Paper Rock
Reviewed onIn the opening of his excellent book Bullet Paper Rock, Abbas El-Zein introduces the idea of a particular type of essay, a literary foray. These types of essays, writes the …
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Arts Connecting Margaret River
Reviewed onIn her handsome tome Arts Connecting Margaret River, Heather Locke OAM presents a vibrant tapestry of artistic endeavours that have shaped the Margaret River region over the past half-century. This …
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Shadows of Winter Robins
Reviewed onShadows of Winter Robins by Louise Wolhuter masterfully intertwines the innocence of childhood with the sobering reflections of adulthood, creating a narrative that is both wonderfully dark and deeply introspective. …
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Taking Flight: Tomes of Ascension
Reviewed on‘As the man’s blade slowly pressed through her robes, pricking her stomach, Syline screamed her frustration and pulled her arm back. She stabbed forward. She felt the blade pierce his …
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Fragile Creatures
Reviewed onFragile Creatures by Khin Myint is a powerful and thought-provoking debut memoir. Opening in the narrative present, Myint introduces readers to key aspects of his story: his sister Theda’s illness, …
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Thank You
Reviewed onJosh Langley returns with another gem from his toolbox of life skill essentials for kids with Thank You, a vibrant, quirky how-to of gratitude. Thank You gently guides young readers …
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Woven Frays
Reviewed onIs Perth poet Baran Rostamian the love child – metaphorically speaking, of course – of John Ashbery and Melissa Lozada-Oliva? Quite possibly. For in her debut collection Woven Frays, Rostamian’s exuberant …
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