Apr 26, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
Author Cassie Hamer is known for her dark domestic dramas, filled with the minutiae of family life immediately recognisable to anyone with small people in their orbit, every book touched with secrets, scandal, betrayal or regret. Her latest novel THE STRANGER AT THE...
Apr 24, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
FIRST LIE WINS (Hachette Headline 2024) is a propulsive, page-turning psychological thriller by Ashley Elston. The opening premise is simple but preposterous: you meet a stranger at a party who looks uncannily similar to you, and even shares your name; soon one of you...
Apr 21, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
Award-winning poet, author and teacher Maggie Smith shot to international fame with her short poem ‘Good Bones’ and the last line of that poem is the title of her much-anticipated memoir, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL (Simon and Schuster Canongate 2024), a...
Apr 8, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
Is romance the highest selling fiction genre in the world? Yes, it is. And why is that? It’s because there’s nothing readers like more than a good comfort read, some hilarious rom-com, and a dash of loving. Author Anita Heiss knows this as well as anyone, and while...
Apr 4, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
From the inventive and intellectual imagination of author Siang Lu comes the extraordinary novel GHOST CITIES (UQP 2024), a dichotomous tale of ancient China and a contemporary abandoned (or ghost city) set in modern-day China. Two very different stories that...
Mar 26, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
In OUT OF THE WOODS (Transit Lounge 2025), author Gretchen Shirm presents a well-researched, shocking, thought-provoking literary novel that explores the atrocities of genocide from the intimate perspective of a woman working at a trial at the Hague. Set in 2000,...
