Trent Dalton is as close to a Rock Star as an Australian writer ever gets. He’s a Walkley award winning journalist and his debut novel sold over a million copies – making it the fastest selling book in Australian history. …
What a delightful read! This collection of stories put together by Megan Daley is such a pleasure to sample. At a time when so much in the world is being found wanting, these accounts remind me that the individual …
DARK ARENA is the first bona fide top flight thriller of the year.
Jack Beaumont secured his place in the pantheon of espionage page turners with his first book, The Frenchman. With DARK ARENA he cements that place.
Again we …
British comedian and actor David Mitchell is well-known for his many TV shows. UNRULY is his first book and it’s a gem. Subtitled ‘A history of England’s Kings and Queens’ this is unlike any history book you’ve read before. It’s …
A new novel from Louis de Bernieres promises so much. The famed author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and many other titles, along with a substantial catalogue of poetry, is indeed a superb wordsmith. But in this new novel that …
This program has just celebrated its 35 Year Anniversary in November. 35 years ago I was approached by the then General Manager of Dymocks, Greg Milne, to start the program. He and I had worked at Myer previously and had …
Long before becoming a television phenomenon in As Time Goes By, long before her seven outings as 007’ s boss M, long before her Oscar win in Shakespeare In Love, Judie Dench was a jobbing actress playing many of Shakespeare’s …
PERSONAL SCORE is van Neerven’s reflections on what it means to play sport in Australia as a queer, First Nations sportsperson. Sports, as I know it in Australia, is presented as everything good about being Australian – it brings people …
There’s more than one occasion reading Michael Caine’s thriller, DEADLY GAME, that one thinks of his immortal phrase in the film, The Italian Job, “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!”
DEADLY GAME reads like the movie Michael …
Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure, Claire Keegan’s SO LATE IN THE DAY is sheer perfection in story telling.
Like Raymond Carver’s So Much Water So Close to Home, SO LATE IN THE DAY crystallises life changing situations elevating the …