Book review: Tom Lake
Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake is a delightful tale of a mother recounting a long-ago romance to her adult daughters Author: Ann Patchett Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Tom…
Book extract: The Dreaming Path
Indigenous thinking to change your lifeThrough conversations, exercises, Dreamtime stories and key messages, Paul Callaghan and Uncle Paul Gordon will sit you around the fire…
The Imitator
Evelyn Varley spends her life blending in. From an only child fleeing modest roots to fit in as a scholarship student at a prestigious boarding…
Emotional Female
It is hard not to feel stressed within the opening pages of this powerful memoir. As Yumiko Kadota – with humour and heart – attempts…
Greenlights
McConaughey is an Academy Award-winning actor and producer, starring in numerous films and celebrated crime drama True Detective.Author: Matthew McConaughey Review: Nicholas McGann Publisher: Penguin…
Leave the World Behind
It is a rare object improved by 2020. And reading Leave the World Behind, a literary thriller with a dystopian twist, during the pre-Christmas days…
Dissenting Opinions
The NSW Solicitor-General uses a legal term as the title for his latest book because, he explains, the collection of essays and reviews are “a…
The Cold Millions
Delving into the wanderings through eastern Washington State, Idaho and western Montana of two brothers – Rye and Gig – during a period of economic…
What would love do?
Lyndsay Brown describes one of the hardest periods of her life: the first year of parenting a transgender daughter.Author: Lyndsay Brown Review: Stephen Tully Publisher:…
Really?
If you like his irreverent-yet-informative magazine columns and enjoyed his successful television years on Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson is a witty and amusing reviewer of…
The Survivors
With pedigree as a former news journalist, Jane Harper never buries the lead. Her books, fast becoming the defining novels of a new genre of…