Jan 21, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Another great debut rural crime novel in an Australian setting, When One Of Us Hurts (Pan Macmillan 2023) by Monica Vuu is a story of an isolated coastal town, Port Brighton, where Outsiders are not welcome and Insiders are expected to behave a certain way. But when...
Jan 21, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Emily Spurr’s debut A Million Things (Text Publishing 2021) is a joy to read, crafted with the skill of a much more assured and experienced writer and delivering a story that is full of love, grief, friendship, resilience and humour. This novel will break your heart...
Jan 16, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Suspenseful, creepy and dark, The Last House on Needless Street (Viper Books Allen and Unwin 2021) by Catriona Ward is not only the ultimate novel highlighting unreliable narrators, but unreliable characters too. A nail-biting psychological thriller, this captivating...
Jan 11, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Lucy Treloar is one of Australia’s finest current writers and her third novel, Days of Innocence and Wonder (Picador 2023) demonstrates her ability to experiment with different genres. Her first novel was historical fiction, her second dystopian fiction, and this...
Jan 1, 2024 | What Am I Reading?
Over two million readers can’t be wrong. My daughter Kiara suggested The Midnight Library (Canongate 2020) by Matt Haig and it is the perfect holiday, new year read. Filled with magical realism, whimsy, poignant warmth, tenderness and optimism, this novel will leave...
Dec 27, 2023 | What Am I Reading?
Michelle Upton’s Emergency Exit Only (Harper Collins 2023) is the perfect summer beach read: light-hearted, full of warmth and wit, and imaginative, it is the stuff dreams are made of (literally). A local Brisbane author, part of Upton’s charm is that she writes about...
