Books

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(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) It’s a constant feature of end-of-the-world stories that there’s a sizeable reckoning for any of the protagonists involved in the story; it makes sense – the world is about to go the way of the Dodo, life in all its forms is vapourising into nothing and, Continue Reading

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Imagination of varying degrees and intensity sits at the heart of all of the stories we read. Somewhere, somehow, an author has had the germ of an idea, a glimmer of a character, a snippet of a plot, and through hard work and a deft use Continue Reading

(courtesy Fremantle Press) We live in a society mortally afraid of death and so, when it someone we love dies, it’s expected that our expressions of grief will not be prolonged and will stay on socially neat lanes. Its a ridiculous expectation to have for a whole host of emotional Continue Reading

(courtesy Text Publishing) Have you ever been rolling along in life, thinking everything is okay and then woken up one day to realise you’re actually a bit player in your own life? In other words, if there were awards for your life, and why the hell shouldn’t there be, you’d Continue Reading

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) There are certain figures who are so intrinsic to a country’s modern identity that you automatically assume you know everything is about them. But as a fantastically imaginative and thoroughly clever new novel, Henry Goes Bush by Wayen Marshall, makes clear, that’s not always so. The Continue Reading

Figuring out who you are is one of the most monumental, and yes, challenging parts of growing up. It’s messy, it’s three steps back to one step forward, or at least it feels that way, and it rarely makes as much sense as we want it to; but if that’s Continue Reading

(courtesy Hachette Australia) It’s a truism of any form of storytelling that genres generally come with cast-iron rules. If you want to write in those genres, and have people, in this case, read your books, you have to include certain tropes and cliches to keep the punters happy; however, simply Continue Reading

(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) There are some books you read, and then are others, and good lord if Good Boy by Michelle Wright isn’t one of them, that you experience, you live, you breathe and you don’t soon forget. A novel about the most unique of second chances, Continue Reading