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
Australian Elder Law: Accommodation, Agency and Remedies
Australian Elder Law: Accommodation, Agency and Remedies by Richard McCullagh is is practical, offering many handy hints, with appropriate humour to lighten the tone.
No friend but the mountains
Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been in limbo on Manus Island. He was sent there after he tried to reach our shores by…
A zero waste life
Self-described ‘accidental environmentalist’ Anita Vandyke had it all – a rocket scientist qualification, a well-paying corporate job as a manager in a large engineering firm,…
Inside the Lindt Café siege
It’s almost four years since Man Haron Monis took 18 hostages in Sydney’s Lindt Café so you may wonder what else can be written about…
The social rebellion
Maz Compton has it all. She’s gorgeous and funny, has an amazing career, a fabulous partner, and lives on Sydney’s northern beaches.
Mr Ordinary goes to jail
The popularity of TV series like Wentworth and Orange is the New Black has exposed a huge, somewhat voyeuristic, demand among audiences to discover what…
Murder at dusk
Only once has a foreign court hanged a man on Australian soil. It is May 1942 and Melbourne was torn between fearing Japanese invasion and revelling…
Eggshell Skull
It can be fascinating to see how many lawyers become great writers. Law graduate-turned writer Bri Lee (her bio says she “is qualified to practise…
Rather his own man
Early in the preface to Rather His Own Man, lawyer Geoffrey Robertson maps out the place that this “reliable memoir” should hold among some of…
Lullaby
French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani’s Prix Goncourt prize-winning novel, Chanson Douce, published as Lullaby, lands its biggest punch on the first page.