Glued and screwed.
It’s a term used in the construction of a coffin and quite easily be applied as a metaphor for family dynamics in Susannah Begbie’s Richell Prize winning debut novel, THE DEED.
A ridiculous will where insanity and …
One is reminded of Anson Cameron and Tim Winton in reading Cameron Stewart’s debut novel, WHY DO HORSES RUN?
Tender and humane is what Tim Winton thought of it and who am I to disagree?
WHY DO HORSES RUN? tells …
Royal writers have been rushing to their publishers in the twelve months since the passing of Queen Elizabeth and the coronation of King Charles. There is a veritable slew of new biographies, each claiming to be more intimate, more accurate, …
From the start of her latest novel NORMAL WOMEN, writer Ainslie Hogarth seeks to shock her readership with immediate accounts of the horrors of childbirth, establishing her critique of common representations of female experiences. Through shared tales that compare C-sections …
As an award-winning investigative journalist, Louise Milligan has reported on her fair share of heinous crimes. She draws on that experience to write her first novel PHEASANTS NEST, focusing on the all too familiar experience of violence against women. It …
In THE OTHER SIDE OF DAYLIGHT, David Brooks curates a selection of his poems that span back over 50 years or so, plotting his own maturation and evolution as well as that of his poems. The pathway is set …
Aging antiques dealer Arthur Crockleford has every reason to suspect someone is out to get him. When the worst happens and he is murdered in his shop late one night, it’s left to his best friend Carole and her niece …
‘Clay is dirt, clay is land, land is where we belong ‘
This is a large but relatively thin book, exquisitely illustrated. It tells the history of the land and the Indigenous people’s relationship with it and then the life …
Large but rather thin, with a forward by Douglas Gautier AM, and a table of contents at the front, this is a terrific book , a series of interviews by Samela Harris of people involved with the Centre , from …
One look at the cover of Ainsley Hogarth’s new book told me it wasn’t going to be an easy read. The glazed over eyes of the made-up woman in pink invokes a 1950’s aesthetic, one pop culture is determined to …