Posted on 4 Jul 2023 in Fiction |
Mat Osman’s second novel swoops through a fantastical rendering of Elizabethan London. Magic, drama, theatre – and the birds: Everywhere birds. The sound hit you first: vast waterfalls of birdsong, overspilling like a treasure hoard. On first...
Posted on 29 Jun 2023 in Non-Fiction |
Stan Grant remains committed to responding with love as he interrogates Whiteness in Australia and around the world. In The Queen is Dead Stan Grant uses the death of the person he calls ‘The White Queen’ as a springboard to discuss not only...
Posted on 27 Jun 2023 in Fiction |
Debut novelist Megan Rogers has chosen the moody west coast of Tasmania as the backdrop for this dark family drama. Just as the atmosphere on the Apple Isle can often be bleak and unpredictable (characteristics that have lent themselves so well to...
Posted on 22 Jun 2023 in Fiction |
Catherine Therese follows up her memoir The Weight of Silence with a novel featuring an abrasive yet sympathetic protagonist. My mother thought Catch-22 was one of the funniest books ever written. My dad thought it one of the saddest. Things She...
Posted on 20 Jun 2023 in Non-Fiction |
Like its predecessors Girt and True Girt, David Hunt’s third volume is a riotous romp through Australian history. Covering the late 19th century in the lead up to Federation, Girt Nation brings the makers and shapers of our country to...
Posted on 15 Jun 2023 in Fiction |
Without drama, plot or action, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has nevertheless created a compelling work of fiction. Susan Sontag once described novelist László Krasznahorkai as ‘the Hungarian master of the apocalypse’. Many of...