May 18, 2020 | What Am I Reading?
Second Sight (Simon and Schuster 2018), the second crime novel by Irish/Australian writer Aoife Clifford, is set in an Australian country town where everybody knows everybody else and they all remember their past shared histories. Lawyer Eliza Carmody is back in...
May 13, 2020 | What Am I Reading?
Butterfly Yellow (UQP 2020) by Vietnamese / American Thanhha Lai is an extraordinary own voices story of the trauma of a refugee combined with the unlikely friendship between two young people. Inspired by the author’s own experience of being a refugee, this YA novel...
May 11, 2020 | What Am I Reading?
A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature (Camden House 2013), edited by academic and author Belinda Wheeler, is a carefully curated selection of 11 non-fiction essays that collectively cover a comprehensive discourse on writing by Indigenous people. At the time...
May 10, 2020 | What Am I Reading?
Desire Lines (Hachette 2020) is an epic, sweeping drama spanning more than half a century by author Felicity Volk. Featuring a lifelong relationship between Paddy O’Connor and Evie Waddell, this is a love story that transcends time, place and circumstances. In...
May 8, 2020 | What Am I Reading?
Eliza Henry Jones is an author who knows how to delve deep into the human condition and explore those confronting, emotional issues that shadow every family in a different way. In her new YA novel How to Grow A Family Tree (Angus and Robertson 2020), she once again...
May 7, 2020 | What Am I Reading?
The Gift is a non-fiction book first published by Lewis Hyde in 1979; my edition was published by Canongate Books in 2012. With a foreword by Margaret Atwood, who calls it quite simply ‘a masterpiece’, The Gift is a treatise on ‘How the Creative Spirit Transforms the...
