Dec 11, 2019 | What Am I Reading?
Wolfe Island (Picador Pan Macmillan) is the second novel from Lucy Treloar, the award-winning author of the historical Salt Creek. Wolfe Island takes us into the future instead of the past and is set on the other side of the world, in Chesapeake Bay, where the seas...
Dec 1, 2019 | What Am I Reading?
Author David Burton is well-known for his playwriting, his work with the Queensland Music Festival, and his award-winning non-fiction book for young people, How to Be Happy. His first novel, The Man in the Water (UQP 2019), is a page-turning and suspenseful YA story...
Dec 1, 2019 | What Am I Reading?
Issue 236 of Overland Magazine, founded in 1954, is packed with nonfiction, poetry (including by Stuart Barnes), prize-winning fiction and the brilliant cartoons by Sam Wallman – my favourite being Grenfell Two Years On, a collage memorial of the tragedy. The winner...
Dec 1, 2019 | What Am I Reading?
Moving Your Body (Lothian Hachette 2019) is a delightful board book for toddlers by Beci Orpin. Each page is a fun suggestion for movement – ‘Fly with your arms’; ‘Smile with your mouth’; ‘Hold with your hand’ – that can be imitated by children and parents as they...
Nov 28, 2019 | What Am I Reading?
Croatoan is an ebook by emerging author Matt Halton, who is creating some awesome, intellectual, edgy, exciting and thought-provoking writing. His novel Croatoan features crime, conspiracy theories, synchronicity, lost cities, hippies, aliens, politics, mysteries,...
Nov 23, 2019 | What Am I Reading?
Before I opened the first pages, I had no idea what this novel was about, only that the debut novel by poet Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Random House 2019) had received rave reviews from people like Max Porter, Celeste Ng and Marlon James,...
