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The story flows from the end of World War Two in France, to the Australian outback in 1994. It’s a delightful story of a girl raised on a large property who leaves home for new worlds. Joy is a …
Wow! No wonder Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel, BUT THE GIRL, has been picked up by a number of international publishers. It really is a must read.
BUT THE GIRL is everything one would wish in a novel – …
Anna McGahan’s IMMACULATE is the 2023 winner of The Australian / Vogel’s Award for Young Writers that has launched the careers of over a hundred Australian authors, including Anna’s uncle, beloved Australian novelist Andrew McGahan. The award is one of …
This book is captivatingly, marvellously written, extensively researched. It is a ‘fictional’ narrative of the roughly eighteen months that Vincent and Sien were together. It is divided into three parts, with thirty one chapters .We follow the changes in the …
Shoji Morimoto is a young husband and father living in Tokyo. Disillusioned with life in the Japanese corporate culture, he started his own business as a ‘rental person who does nothing’ in 2018. At the time, it didn’t even really …
Briohny Doyle’s WHY WE ARE HERE is a novel which feels like its written for a very specific audience of dog-loving sarcastic people going through loss. The novel is about a woman named BB and her journey through the grief …
Sorry readers, while this book is excellently written and the detail terrific, and some of it is quite sad (and other bits frightening) I do not like the main character, maverick Detective Declan Miller.
Whilst yes, Detective Miller is excellent …
This is a fabulous book, intimately, terrifically written. Heather Mitchell comes across as an extremely kind, loving person, dedicated to her art. She is also an ailurophile ( cat lover). It is a meditation on the ups and downs of …
Gabrielle Zevin’s TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW is a book about a lot of things. There’s an exploration on how friendships change over time, how love is expressed in all different ways, unrequited and requited, how flawed people can be …
The British Royal Family is Robert Jobson’s bread and butter having been a royal reporter for over 30 years and already the author of numerous books about ‘the Firm’. He’s also been in the press pack accompanying the royals on …