Book review: Safe Haven
Shankari Chandran’s gripping and persuasive novel of asylum seekers, reads like an open wound.
By Jen Webb - 5 min readShankari Chandran’s gripping and persuasive novel of asylum seekers, reads like an open wound.
By Jen Webb - 5 min readRyan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in a love letter to the stunt professionals of Hollywood. Shot in Sydney’s CBD, it offers little beyond impressive…
By Francisco Silva - 3 min readThis is a book about a man born 200 years ago, whose accomplishments and legacy deserve to be remembered. Francis Villeneuve Smith led a remarkable…
By Melissa Coade - 2 min readJessica Rowe is an Australian journalist, author and television presenter who most people will recognise as the sassy, short-haired former co-host of Network Ten’s breakfast…
By Kate Allman - 2 min readThis is the latest in a string of books penned by ex-pollie Peter Breen. Described by the Byron Bay-based lawyer as a “cheerful romp through…
By Melissa Coade - 2 min readWelcome to the decade when the White Australia policy was abolished and the ABC broadcast its first female newsreader. Historian Michelle Arrow sling-shots readers through…
By Melissa Coade - < 1 min readThe blurb on the back cover of this book asks: “Are you a marketer or business development professional who works in a law firm and…
By Melissa Coade - < 1 min readA manager who you can trust, who builds trust, and sees value in nurturing trust within an organisation? Sounds like fiction. In this book, Witzel…
By Melissa Coade - 2 min readDo you ever feel like your life has been so blessed that it makes you terrifyingly vulnerable?
By Kate Allman - 2 min readA business trip to China in 1935 is brought to life in the ninth book of this Australian-styled crime series. Rowland Sinclair, an artist from…
By Melissa Coade - 2 min readAs Kim McKay, Director and CEO of the Australian Museum, writes in the foreword to this beautiful book, it seems unimaginable that there was a…
By Jane Southward - 2 min readFinance journalist Damon Kitney spent six months on and off with James Packer for The Price of Fortune, an impressive biography of the son of…
By Jane Southward - 2 min read