Book review: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing is a book that has been all over social media, so I was intrigued to have…
Enough of the plastic – McDonald’s should replace its Happy Meal toys with books
Lately, a visit to McDonald’s has been leaving a bad taste in my mouth, and it’s not due to the…
Book review: Hunger by Roxane Gay
After seeing Roxane Gay on the ABC’s Q&A program, I thought I knew what to expect with her memoir, Hunger…
An embarrassment of riches is a good problem to have when it comes to books and podcasts
Do you remember that feeling of freedom and possibility when you graduated from the children’s and young adult section of…
Book review: Autumn by Ali Smith
I might have come to Autumn a little uninformed, believing it to have been written by Zadie Smith, rather than…
Am I living in a literary echo chamber, as well as a political one?
Reading the list of books most commonly borrowed from libraries from April 2018 until March 2019, just after the shock…
For me, a book review is a debrief rather than a preview
When I travel, I rarely read about places before I visit them; it is afterwards when I scour the travel…
Book review: The Aunts’ House by Elizabeth Stead (UQP)
Set in Sydney in 1942, The Aunts’ House is the charming story of a young recently orphaned girl named Angel…
At The Wheeler Centre with Kamila Shamsie and Andrew Sean Greer
May has been a big month for literary groupies like me, with the authors of two of my favourite books…
Junior Review: Alex Rider Secret Weapon by Anthony Horowitz
Review by Sam, 8 years What is the book about? There are seven short stories that all have a completely…
