Jodi Picoult’s latest novel contrasts life in the Galapagos and New York during Covid-19. Jodi Picoult’s Wish You Were Here is a story about the nature of reality. When Covid-19 first hit in the early months of 2020, few understood just how...
British crime writer Gillian McAllister’s new novel explores time travel as crime prevention. Time loops are everywhere these days. Groundhog Day might have popularised them (and in doing so entered the popular vernacular) but the narrative...
A look back at the novel that won Louise Erdrich, most recently author of The Sentence, the Pulitzer Prize. Towards the end of Louise Erdrich’s excellent novel The Night Watchman are the words ‘Ambe bi-izhaan omaa askiing...
Jonathan Bazzi’s autofiction gives an insight into living with HIV today. Jonathan Bazzi came home from their philosophy class one lunchtime not feeling quite right. A fever came over them ‘and never left’. The result is Fever, an important...
Deidre O’Connell recounts how an American jazz band caused panic in White Australia. In the latter part of the 1920s, the JC Williamson Company was on the lookout for American talent to attract patrons to vaudeville shows at their Tivoli...
The bestselling novelist brings together real-life love stories in this collection. How this book came together is as intrinsic to its existence as the 150 love stories it contains. It opens with Dalton’s letter to his friend Kathleen Kelly, who...
