A body is found in the snow on Christmas day. Golden haired, yellow booted, red sashed against the whiteness of the snow, some bit of colour in the scrupulous desolation.
So begins THE PASSENGER by Cormac McCarthy, a mystery mosaic, …
Of medium size and not too thick, Edith M Zigler’s THE WORLDS AND WORK OF CLARICE BECKETT is a complex, comprehensively researched biography which is divided into eighteen chapters with a preface, notes, bibliography and index. Illustrations are also …
Feet are the natural stocking fillers, ankles and legs too, I sup-hose, but Yule tide lapping at the shores of the gift giving gulf of consumerterria demand other items to stuff the Christmas sock.
Put your money where your foot …
Jerry Saltz is a major American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and columnist for New York magazine, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2018. Concentrating on American art. Australia barely gets a …
This is an engrossing, electrifying book, a fascinating novel about the world of High Art conservation and restoration, fakes (or not), shady financial deals worth millions and the criminal underworld.
This is John M Green’s sixth novel. Using the real-life …
As I sit at my desk looking out the window at the wind and the rain, I consider all the books I’ve reviewed for Sydney Arts Guide over the past few years. I was to write an article for the …
The ‘pearls’ are the 41 inspirational women from all over NSW , who Angela Schaffer interviewed and photographed, along with her daughter Liz, over a two year period.
The group of women chosen were very interesting and diverse. The list …
In 1977, Clive James declared in the New York Review of Books, John le Carré’s The Honourable Schoolboy “is about as twice as long as it should be”. Two years later he wrote in The Observer of the television series …
‘Movement is life, dance is life’.
Written in a most engaging style, Twyla Tharp , living dance legend, gives advice and nuggets of wisdom for utilizing and developing endurance and a resonance of meaning and aspiration as one ages.
The …
Ever given a thought to HR and Henchmen?
Or OH &S as per OHMSS?
Super geek Kathryn Harkup has and gives it vent in her Q branch fan tome, SUPERSPY SCIENCE, a Qute critique of science, death and tech in …