Book review: Hooked
After the thunderous success of Butter, Asako Suzuki’s sixth novel finally receives an English translation.
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…
The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
Author JM Naqvi introduces readers to the Pakistani city of Karachi like opening a can of multicoloured worms. You can smell the scenes and taste…
Sir Francis Villeneuve Smith: Third Chief Justice of Tasmania
This is a book about a man born 200 years ago, whose accomplishments and legacy deserve to be remembered. Francis Villeneuve Smith led a remarkable…
Diary of a crap housewife
Jessica Rowe is an Australian journalist, author and television presenter who most people will recognise as the sassy, short-haired former co-host of Network Ten’s breakfast…
Candidates Disease
This is the latest in a string of books penned by ex-pollie Peter Breen. Described by the Byron Bay-based lawyer as a “cheerful romp through…
The Seventies
Welcome to the decade when the White Australia policy was abolished and the ABC broadcast its first female newsreader. Historian Michelle Arrow sling-shots readers through…
The Marketer’s Guide to Law Firms
The blurb on the back cover of this book asks: “Are you a marketer or business development professional who works in a law firm and…
The Ethical Leader
A manager who you can trust, who builds trust, and sees value in nurturing trust within an organisation? Sounds like fiction. In this book, Witzel…
Any Ordinary Day
Do you ever feel like your life has been so blessed that it makes you terrifyingly vulnerable?