Jan 13, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
Lioness (Bloomsbury 2023) by Emily Perkins is a mesmerising and intimate account of the lives of two women as they slowly unravel due to both external circumstances and their interior struggles. It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion. You can see that it’s all...
Jan 6, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
It’s taken me a while to get to the 2023 Miles Franklin Award winner, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Ultimo Press 2022) by Shankari Chandran, but I’m so glad I did! This is a stunning, immersive, wide-ranging novel with all the readability that its cute title and...
Jan 3, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
Chris Womersley’s coming-of age-story ORDINARY GODS AND MONSTERS (Picador 2023) has the beating heart of a thrilling crime novel. Skilfully written, with engaging characters and the familiar themes of adolescents transversing that liminal time between childhood and...
Jan 1, 2025 | What Am I Reading?
I adore Catherine de Saint Phalle’s writing: astonishing, wise, engaging, insightful, warm, compassionate, intimate and always ringing with the heavy weight of a truthful bell. Call Me Marlowe (Transit Lounge 2023) is an endearing, traumatic and hopeful novel set...
Dec 30, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
In his third novel featuring the detective Georges Gorski, Scottish author Graeme Macrae Burnet has completed a stunning meta crime fiction series set in the small town of Saint-Louis, on the French-Swiss border. A CASE OF MATRICIDE (Text Publishing 2024) is...
Dec 11, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
An endearing combination of tender romance and witty comedy with an undercurrent of dark secrets, Emma Grey’s novel Pictures of You (Penguin Random House 2024) explores themes of coercive control, identity, memory, desire, friendship, trauma, betrayal, grief and...
