Jun 24, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
THE BURIED LIFE (Transit Lounge 2025) by Andrea Goldsmith is a literary work of poetic beauty, brilliant craft, meaningful themes and characters with whom we become deeply invested. The novel features three main protagonists who form an unlikely but inseparable...
Jun 23, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
What an unexpected delight is HEARTSEASE (Picador 2024) by debut author Kate Kruimink, a beautifully captured tale of grief, family, sisterhood, love, memory, life and what comes afterwards. Sisters Lot and Nelly, eight years apart, grew as close as siblings can be...
Jun 18, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
The winner of The 2025 Stella Prize, THEORY AND PRACTICE (Text Publishing 2024) is an interesting and eclectic work from author Michelle de Kretser which combines fiction, memoir, autofiction, essay and literature theory to create a hybrid tale that shapeshifts from...
Jun 15, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
Author Josephine Rowe’s latest novella LITTLE WORLD (Black Inc 2025) is a literary gem with sparkling and evocative prose, nuanced and unforgettable characters and a suitable amount of ambiguity and complexity to encourage deep thought about profound and universal...
Jun 13, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
A warm, sweet hug of a book, THE REMARKABLE TRUTHS OF ALFIE BAINS (Allen and Unwin 2025) by Sarah Clutton is narrated by the endearing, precocious and curious Irish nine-year-old Alfie Bains, who is determined to discover the reason his mother has been lying to him...
Jun 12, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
RED DIRT BLUE LIGHTS (AndAlso Books 2025) is a slim novel by ex-policewoman Tess Merlin that provides an important insight into life in the community of Cherbourg in the 1970’s. The novella is prefaced by a Foreword from Uncle Eric Law AM and informed by Merlin’s past...
