Thank you for the positive feedback to the recent post on quotable quotes – simple thoughtlines that say so much. As this post proved to be so popular, I have decided to add a weekly post which include a fresh …
A couple of years ago, Ali Heath released a beautiful homes book called CURATE, written with Lynda Gardner. That was a real success, selling over 20,000 copies. Heath’s new book, CREATE (do you see how similar those two words …
The name’s Kite. Lachlan Kite. And he’s a major player in the third instalment of Charles Cumming’s seriously addictive Box 88 series, KENNEDY 35.
Kite’s been front and centre in the two previous novels, Box 88 and Judas 62, and …
Sarah Walker’s THE FIRST TIME I THOUGHT I WAS DYING is non-fiction in the most serious sense. Within the realm of non-fiction itself there exists a spectrum of easy to difficult reads, from light-hearted memoir to dramatised history to textbooks. …
“The Seven, my dear. We do take ourselves so seriously. Who knows what skeletons our budding historian might find…and in whose cupboards he might find them?”
Those skeletons are legion and come rattling out of copious cupboards in Chris …
This easy-to-read history of Macquarie Bank is a must-read for every MBA and commerce student. It is a recommended-read for all investors. For anyone interested in how the world functions, it is an eye-opening read. Funds management, global markets, commodities …
Legendary American comedian Jerry Seinfeld published a book last year, via Simon and Schuster (Australia), titled ‘Is This Anything?
Seinfeld’s book comprises jokes that he retrieved from his database going back to the 1970’s. The book is indexed by decade …
“When I became pope, almost the first word the Curia taught me was ‘ricatto’-blackmail.”
A terrifically written , intimately detailed book that could be read in conjunction with Morrow’s ‘Pope to Pope’ .
It is the intimate diary of …
At one of the largest Dymocks Literary lunches, organised by the mercurial Judy Benson, Richard Osman was interviewed by Richard Glover, who is the subject of the next literary lunch.
To people who are devotees of British television and games …
Trent Dalton has published several successful novels and one of his most popular Boy Swallows Universe has been made in to a Netflix series starring Simon Baker which is currently streaming.
Ably interviewed by novelist Cassie Hamer and when she …