Mar 31, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
I’m a firm believer that books often come into your hands at exactly the time you need them. Carly-Jay Metcalfe’s memoir Breath (UQP 2024) is hopeful, funny, exhilarant, optimistic and wise (what I need to read right now) although the content is raw and visceral,...
Mar 20, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
I love it when a good friend (thanks Fiona Stager) presses a book into my hands, a book that I’ve never heard of (BONE LANDS Affirm Press 2024) by a new (to me) author, Pip Fioretti, and says: ‘I’m keen to know what you think of this!’, because I have no clue about...
Mar 18, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Yet another book that I avoided because ‘how could it possibly live up to all the hype?’ and then yes, it does, and I feel stupid for not reading it before now. The extraordinary TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW (Penguin Random House 2022) by Gabrielle Zevin feels...
Mar 3, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Crime writer Dinuka McKenzie is back with her beloved protagonist Detective Kate Miles in the third in a series (following THE TORRENT and TAKEN) with her new novel TIPPING POINT (Harper Collins 2024), a police procedural that combines detailed policing investigations...
Feb 28, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
I absolutely devoured this compelling environmental thriller, The Rewilding (Transit Lounge 2024) by Donna M Cameron. From the first page to the last, this story is a fast, taut, tight, nerve-wracking, tense cat and mouse game about a whistle-blower frightened for his...
Feb 25, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
I inhaled this memoir in one breathless sitting, astonished at the energy, rawness and honesty of Natasha Sholl’s Found, Wanting (Ultimo Press 2022). This is a story about grief, loss and death but it is also an interrogation of the narrator’s feelings and beliefs...
