Posted on 21 Jan 2021 in Fiction |
Jessica Francis Kane’s second novel delves into the nature of friendship in an age of social media. With a light touch, Kane has written a funny and moving novel that is a study of many things, chief among them friendship. What does...
Posted on 19 Jan 2021 in Fiction |
The latest thriller from award-winner JP Pomare continues his fascination with psychological manipulation. Early one morning at Melbourne’s Southbank station, psychologist Margot Scott approaches a man from behind, hesitating as she waits for the...
Posted on 17 Dec 2020 in Fiction, Non-Fiction |
We’ve crunched the numbers and come up with the ten most popular reviews we’ve run this year, based on reader views. Is your favourite book among them? Here’s a chance to catch up on some you may have missed, or to revisit books that...
Posted on 15 Dec 2020 in Fiction |
Thomas McMullan’s debut novel explores truth, justice and punishment – and who gets to decide them. The air is rich enough to turn stones to men and men to stone. Careful not to step on anything that will make a noise, Peck edges towards the...
Posted on 10 Dec 2020 in Fiction |
Kikuko Tsumura’s debut novel explores how even a seemingly simple task can become unexpectedly complicated. This whole situation had come to be because I’d sat down one day in front of my recruiter and informed her that I wanted a job as...
Posted on 8 Dec 2020 in Non-Fiction |
Lesley Blume recounts how world learned the human cost of the Hiroshima bombing, to the dismay of the US government. On 31 August 1946, the New Yorker magazine devoted its entire issue to a 30,000-word essay by John Hersey entitled ‘Hiroshima’. It...