Monthly Archive: August 2018
Reading Time: 3 minutes In her book, ‘Eggshell Skull’, Bri Lee offers something of interest to readers with divergent interests. Those fascinated by courtroom drama will undoubtedly find the book impossible to put down, as Bri...
Reading Time: 4 minutesIAN McEWAN’S ‘ON CHESIL BEACH’ BOOK ADAPTED TO FILM ‘On Chesil Beach’ was published in 2007. Ian McEwan’s 166 page novelette (short enough to be read in one long sitting or over a...
Reading Time: 10 minutesTHE KILLING OF MANMEET ALISHER: AVOIDABLE OR INEVITABLE? In late 2016, Manmeet Alisher, a young Brisbane singer/bus-driver was killed by Francis O’Donohue, a passenger who due to his Chronic...
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Wife’ is a film based the book of the same name by Meg Wolitzer. I would be very surprised if it proved to be a smashing box office success as it is anything...
Reading Time: 3 minutesPrior to picking up this book I had no idea that Tony Jones, the journalist best known as the host of the often controversial ABC current affairs program QandA, was also a writer of...
Reading Time: 3 minutesCatholic Church and community leaders urge us to acknowledge the good work of Archbishop Wilson, rather than just remember him for concealing the sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the 1970s. Is...