The Stars Askew continues Australian fantasy author Rjurik Davidson’s dark tale of revolution, treachery and personal sacrifice begun in his debut novel Unwrapped Sky. Again, this story is set in the richly imagined city of Caeli Amur where magical...
We’ve had four swimming pools and I think it’s fair to say that we shouldn’t have had any. In one way or another they were each doomed. The first accompanied a house we rented for a year when we moved to Byron Bay. It was of a good size but it was...
The Red Wake explores the Soviet Union’s complex legacies, exposing both the West’s totalitarian narrative and Russia’s increasingly revisionist history. It was the USSR that built the world’s first power-producing nuclear reactor, beginning a...
‘That’s disgraceful,’ a friend said when I admitted that Heath, my then seven-year-old grandson, could beat me at Scrabble. That was 18 months ago and he continues to beat me. In fact, after 40 or so games the closest I’ve come was a game...
Unnecessary Wars provides a powerful antidote to the pervasive militarising of Australian history over the past 20 years. Not how, but why, is the most compelling question posed by Henry Reynolds in this book, which examines Australian debates...
It is often said that people living cheek by jowl in the city do not know each other or, at best, have only a nodding acquaintance. This was not our experience in Hordern Street, Newtown, as I have recorded in an earlier column, but it has been so...
