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
Freedom to libel?
This collection of essays concerns one of the first cases of libel to rock the colony of NSW. R v Campbell [1817] was brought by…
Zero hour
Harry S. Dent, Jr. is a Harvard-educated demographer and economic forecaster known for his bestselling books The Great Boom Ahead, The Sale of a Lifetime,…
Factfulness
When Microsoft chief Bill Gates says a book is the most important he has ever read, it’s time to take notice. And, fortunately, Factfulness is…
Consent
Leo Benedictus takes the seemingly harmless pastime of people-watching to a new level in Consent. The beguiling first-person narrative begins with a tone of innocence,…
The pastor and the painter
News Corp journalist Cindy Wockner moved to Bali soon after Australians started making news there with the 2002 bombings. Then Schapelle Corby was arrested in…
Between us
Set in Darwin, this is a story about the relationship between teenagers Jono and Ana. Jono is a Vietnamese Australian who has recovered from depression…
The suitcase baby
A suitcase washed up on the shores of Mosman in Sydney in 1923. Two women with complicated, mysterious and impoverished pasts. A dead baby and…
This time: Australia’s Republican past and future
This is a confronting read for Australians who are ambivalent about their country becoming a republic, for two reasons. The first is its demonstration that ambivalence…