Book review: People With No Charisma
A bleak, emotionally draining novel that explores life’s trivial anxieties with humorless precision—reading it feels like enduring depression on the page.
I Shot the Devil
All the makings of a classic hard-boiled crime novel, with a sinister twist
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998
The fear and madness of gaslighting
The Kitchen Front
A heartfelt work of fiction, The Kitchen Front transports you to the English countryside amid the harrowing backdrop of World War II.
Well Hello
Fans of the hit podcast Chat 10 Looks 3 by powerhouse duo Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb will delight in their first co-authored book, which…
The Magician
This imaginative work of fiction sweeps across decades, timestamped to alert to a new date and place in German writer Thomas Mann’s career and his…
After Story
Who is the most reliable teller of your story and history? Is it you, those who’ve loved and protected you, or those who’ve had to…
1979
Whilst those emerging from 100-plus days of lockdown in Greater Sydney might be tempted to toss about the phrase “winter of discontent”, this gritty series…
I Alone Can Fix it
Set to be released in Australia just days before the anniversary of the 2020 US election, this is best enjoyed as a companion read with…
Beautiful World, Where Are You
In a world of climate destruction, rising inequality and a pervading millennial malaise, why, two young women ponder, do humans remain “so stupid about each-other?”
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy
Criminal cases are adversarial. Prosecutors and defence pushing their views at the expense of the other.