Jun 2, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
When author Kris Kneen releases another book into the world, you are guaranteed of evocative, atmospheric, literary writing. The variables are genre – they write in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and memoir. And if as with their latest novel, RITE OF SPRING (Transit...
Jun 1, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
Dervla McTiernan is known for her twisty, complex plots and her superb characterisation, and her latest crime novel THREE REASONS FOR REVENGE (Harper Collins 2026) once again gives readers a curious and intoxicating crime to unravel using the clues and hints she...
May 31, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
YOU GIRLS PLAY NICE by KD Aldyn (Poisoned Pen Press 2026) is a darkly unhinged murder mystery and psychological thriller where almost everyone is a suspect, everyone has a motive and yet the police can’t seem to pin the crime on anybody. Set in contemporary Melbourne...
May 15, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
Is it ever okay to do the wrong thing for the right reason? Or to do the right thing for the wrong reason? In author Mark Smith’s fifth book (his second crime novel for adults) WHERE TRUTH ENDS (Pan Macmillon 2026), he explores these questions amidst the contemporary...
May 7, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
What an extraordinary, spare, glittering literary gem is PHANTOM DAYS (UQP 2026) by Angela O’Keefe. In her trademark prose style – ethereal, strange, beguiling and with a whimsical sense of wonder, O’Keefe presents a story of two women, mother and daughter, Maggie and...
Apr 28, 2026 | What Am I Reading?
Indisputably one of the top wildlife and environmental writers in Australia, Inga Simpson (also an accomplished photographer) captures Country, land, climate issues, species extinction, habitat and the sheer wonder of individual animals, birds, fish, insects, plants,...
