Book review – The First Friend
Set in the Soviet Union during the peak of Stalinism, The First Friend is an absurdist comedy on the legacy of despots and blood-thirsty dictators.
Book review: Safe Haven
Shankari Chandran’s gripping and persuasive novel of asylum seekers, reads like an open wound.
Book review: The Vulnerables
Sigrid Nunez signs a COVID novel that has the same kind of humour, observation and literary references her fans recognise.
Book review: Past Lying
The plot of a dead author’s half-finished manuscript eerily mirrors the real-life disappearance of a young woman. In an Edinburgh lockdown, McDermid’s cold case cop…
Book review: Resurrection Walk
In the latest police-legal procedure combo from Michael Connelly, Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller and his half-brother Harry Bosch join forces to free a woman imprisoned…
Book review: Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano’s fourth novel is an emotional family saga that promises to stay with you long after you finish reading it
Book review: The Broken Places
Russell Franklin’s book is a poetic and emotional fictional account of Ernest Hemingway’s trans daughter, Gloria.
Book review: The Settlement
An enthralling retelling of the ill-fated Wybalenna settlement, Jock Serong confronts the harsh realities of Australia’s colonial history.
Book review: What about men?
Comedian and commentator Caitlin Moran follows her humorous feminist manifesto with a tongue-in-cheek look at the strange world of men.
