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
Salt
For more than 30 years, Bruce Pascoe has been quietly penning some of our most important literature and flown under the radar for most of…
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Elliot Rook QC is an esteemed barrister whose success hides a murky past. When called upon to defend a childhood acquaintance charged with murder, he…
The Veiled Sceptre: Reserve Powers of Heads of State in Westminster Systems
In her latest book, Professor Anne Twomey draws on a vast range of previously unpublished material, including from the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, to…
Bowraville
With the explosion in popularity of true crime across books, Netflix series and podcasts comes an uncomfortable but necessary conversation – are we exploiting the…
Apollo 11: The Inside Story
As last month marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and the “one giant leap for mankind”, it seemed there were an…
The Chain
Every year has its defining crime thriller; think Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and The Woman in the Window. Adrian McKinty’s latest novel…
See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse
Social problems often seem insurmountable, until they are not. Masterfully researched and elegantly written, See What You Made Me Do shines a light into the darkest…
Not Working: Why We Have to Stop
Solidarity in slobbery, anyone? Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen thinks so. As he explains in his book, creativity depends on our connection to that still, silent spot…
Memory Craft
This is a toolkit for anyone wanting to optimise their powers of memory. Fortunately, the brain is a muscle that likes to be trained, and…
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
I have undertaken a workshop with Australian stingless bees. It’s fascinating to watch a community of clever, industrious creatures going about an intricate, mathematical, and…