Jan 11, 2021 | What Am I Reading?
State Highway One (Hachette 2020), by writer Sam Coley, won the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in 2017 and from the opening pages you can immediately see why. The entire book is basically a road trip (both literal and emotional) for protagonist Alex and his twin...
Jan 7, 2021 | What Am I Reading?
Editor Rebecca Starford once again has given us a delightful taste of the latest and greatest Aussie fiction with New Australian Fiction 2020 (Kill Your Darlings 2020). These regular publications never disappoint. Some stories will appeal more to particular readers...
Jan 4, 2021 | What Am I Reading?
The Miseducation of Evie Epworth (Scribner 2020) by Matson Taylor is a gloriously amusing, light-hearted and feel-good novel about coming of age, finding (and accepting) your family, friendship across the ages and following your dreams. Set on an English farm in 1962,...
Jan 3, 2021 | What Am I Reading?
The release of author Jane Harper’s latest crime novel The Survivors (Pan Macmillan 2020) coincides with the imminent release of the film adaptation of her first novel, The Dry, starring Eric Bana. With two books in between (Forces of Nature and The Lost Man), Harper...
Dec 9, 2020 | What Am I Reading?
Just look at this beautiful cover – I think this might be one of my favourite GR covers: so many gorgeous pastel colours, so much potential in those bottles. And it turns out that you CAN judge a book by its cover because this edition of Griffith Review 70...
Dec 6, 2020 | What Am I Reading?
How many writers does it take to screw in a huge lighthouse lamp? Apparently, it’s 15. After meeting randomly at a writers’ conference dress-up dinner, these 15 authors chatted about a vision of creating an anthology of writing with the common theme of lighthouses....
