May 10, 2023 | What Am I Reading?
Clinical psychiatrist Dr Manjula Datta O’Connor’s non-fiction book Daughters of Durga: Dowries, Gender Violence and Family in Australia (Melbourne University Press 2022) opens with the sobering statistic of a cluster of seven suicides in one small Indian/Australian...
May 9, 2023 | What Am I Reading?
Nicole Madigan is an investigative journalist and writer, and her book Obsession: A journalist and victim-survivor’s investigation into stalking (Pantera Press 2023) is an absolutely unputdownable non-fiction book that reads with the page-turning suspense of a novel...
May 9, 2023 | What Am I Reading?
Reclaim (Scribe Publications 2023) is a non-fiction book by Dr Ahona Guha about ‘understanding complex trauma and those who abuse’. A clinical and forensic psychologist, Dr Guhu provides a highly accessible work that covers a lot of ground, and is illustrated by...
May 7, 2023 | What Am I Reading?
What a joy to discover a story with the beautiful lyricism of poetry, the depth of characterisation and wisdom of a family saga, and the page-turning intrigue of a crime mystery. Although Gemini Falls (Affirm Press 2022) is Sean Wilson’s debut novel, his background as...
May 5, 2023 | What Am I Reading?
Gathering Storms (Penguin Random House 2022) by Kerry McGinnis is set in the Gulf country’s monsoon season, and while the drama and mystery of the story gradually unfold, it is this harsh, unforgiving, brutal climate and environment that dominates this novel of...
May 2, 2023 | What Am I Reading?
Author Emma Grey has published two novels for Young Adults, a musical, a non-fiction book and a parenting memoir, but her debut adult fiction novel is a romantic comedy, The Last Love Note (Penguin Random House 2023), written after her husband’s death in a ‘fictional...
