Book review: Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
After reading Mirandi Riwoe’s haunting Fish Girl novella, I had high expectations of Stone Sky Gold Mountain. Set on the Queensland goldfields, this was…
Book review: The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
I’m not sure if you can call an audiobook a page-turner, but that is how I would describe The Good…
Book review: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Gosh, I loved this book. Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet imagines the home life of Shakespeare and the impact of the death…
Cilka is a real-life hero who is too good to be true
In Cilka’s Journey, we are introduced to Cilka Klein, who first appeared in the bestselling The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Cilka…
Book review: The Lying Lives of Adults by Elena Ferrante
It has been too long between Ferrantes ... and beach holidays but this week I’ve been lucky enough to indulge…
Book review: Akin by Emma Donoghue
Akin is a heart warming meditation about family, age and history. The story centres on a retired professor who is…
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
I was initially worried that the audiobook format wouldn’t suit Bernadine Evaristo’s award winning Girl, Woman, Other, but how wrong…
Book review: Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
I was used to reading dark and grim books by Emile Zola set in poverty-stricken mining towns, and while Therese…
Book review: Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler
It might have been the timing – I listened to Redhead by the Side of the Road when I was…
Book Review: Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Too Much Lip has been on of my books of the year. From the first page, I was pulled into…
