Gathering Dark
When composing a cracking work of fiction, killer opening lines are an essential ingredient. The sucker-punch first words of Gathering Dark – “I looked up…
The Medicine: A Doctor’s Notes
As a hospital general physician, Dr Hitchcock regularly holds life in her hands and fields more phone calls from anxious friends and family about their…
Gulpilil
In 1971, an 18-year-old Yolngu man named David Gulpilil made his debut in a film titled Walkabout and became an international sensation. Walkabout is still…
American Dirt
Before it even hit shelves, American Dirt was an odyssey. From beginning the decade as one of the most-hyped novels, anticipation soon turned to anger…
The weekend
After the gut punch of The Natural Way of Things, bestselling literary fiction writer Wood returns with this calmer exploration of female friendship. While The…
Acid for the Children
The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ iconic bassist has released a revealing memoir.
Sir Frederick Jordan: Fire under the Frost
“Better than most lawyers, he understood that life was more than work and that some of its richest pleasures only began after catching the 5.15…
Chase Darkness with Me: how one true crime writer started solving murders
After 17 years of writing about cold cases, US investigative journalist Billy Jensen decides to solve homicides. Two catalysts push him forward.
Finding the Heart of the Nation
When I first read the Uluru Statement from the Heart, I was struck by its clear and profound vision for the future of our nation….
Bruny
The follow-up book after a stellar success is always shadowed by expectation. So it is a delight to discover Australian novelist Heather Rose has navigated…
Maybe the horse will talk
Second-year, second-career lawyer Stephen Maserov is living the corporate nightmare – “in fear of losing a job I absolutely hate”.