“More and more restrictions were placed on our daily lives, limiting our freedom of movement and creating the feeling that it wasn’t safe to even leave the house.”
This line from Mary Venner’s book, WHERE ARE YOU THIS TIME? chimes …
From the very first page Morris’ warm , flamboyant voice captivates us in this intimate , extremely revealing book .Out loud and proud. You feel as if he is talking to you as a close friend.The book itself is of …
Towards the end of her latest book, HOME WORK, Julie Andrews writes, “The most important thing I have learned is the simplest of all: people are just people – no matter their politics, their skin colour or where they live. …
There is usually a rush of sports books as a reliable stocking filler for Dad’s to read on their annual holidays.
The most recent of these is for fans of rugby league in the form of Paul Gallen autobiography HEART …
At 104 Eileen Kramer has led an incredible life, some of which is vividly evoked in this book.
Born in Sydney in 1914, Kramer was an original member of Australia’s first modern dance company, the influential Bodenwieser Ballet, and …
To some Australians Shane Warne is a legend but others see him as deeply flawed. To set the record straight and dispel some of these views, Shane Warne has written his pull no punches autobiography, NO SPIN. Some will be …
On a hot Sydney weekend afternoon in November fans of a near-octogenarian queued for the signing of his latest book. Stars on Stage A Conversation with Reg Livermore saw Reg Livermore return to The Independent Theatre to talk about …
Just finished reading WORKING CLASS BOY the first instalment of the story of James Dixon Swan, aka – Jimmy Barnes. As usual I am about six months behind the times, the book was published to much fanfare last year, ironically …
“There was a green carpet…the colour of algae, the damp green of penicillin. I remember how it smelt, it was like a living thing, the pelt of something that hid terrified and shivering. The bed was big. It smelt like …