Posted on 7 Sep 2017 in Non-Fiction |
How to Dress a Dummy speaks frankly of Cassie Lane’s battle for acceptance and will ring bells with many women. Cassie Lane is a former international model with a Masters in Creative Writing, but seems to be best known in Australia for dating...
Posted on 5 Sep 2017 in Crime Scene |
Emma Viskic explores difference, and its consequences, in this sequel to Resurrection Bay. Even before Viskic’s debut novel Resurrection Bay won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and an unprecedented three Davitt Awards, readers...
Posted on 1 Sep 2017 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
As an undergraduate I wrote self-regarding verses (I can’t dignify them as poems), which I submitted to student magazine editors who rightly rejected them. As a postgraduate I tried writing short stories. They were derivative of Hemingway and...
Posted on 31 Aug 2017 in SFF |
Gailey has delivered a fun, fast-paced, wild-west-style romp set in a possible America. Sarah Gailey’s River of Teeth has a killer alternative history premise – a riff on an actual plan by the US Government in the early 20th century to import and...
Posted on 29 Aug 2017 in Non-Fiction |
Millennials write here about what affects their generation – it affects us all. This is a stunningly good collection of essays, memoirs, images, fiction, reportage and poetry. Written with flair and commitment, it is fresh and exciting. It is very...
Posted on 25 Aug 2017 in The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I once asked a friend who was suffering from some malady or other what he relied on to get better. ‘American chemicals,’ he said. Sceptical about homeopathy and alternative treatments, I was inclined to agree, but experience has taught me to be...