Category: BOOK REVIEWS

Reading Time: 3 minutes Prior 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: 2 minutes   ‘Deceit’ is the first novel of Richard Evans’ proposed Democracy Trilogy. Evans is a former Australian federal politician. He was elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1996 as Liberal Party MHR for the...

Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘The President is Missing’ is a recently published 513 page novel authored by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. While this is former US President Clinton’s first novel, James Patterson is a prolific American author...

Reading Time: 3 minutes I was intrigued to read about ‘The Fortress’, a new novel said to explore  the concept of challenging misogyny and male oppression of women through exposure to a society dominated by women. My interest...

Reading Time: 5 minutes Although a fan of Winton, I have not found his writing particularly easy to read. In this respect his latest novel ‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ is no exception. However, what makes this book a challenge,...

Reading Time: 2 minutes If, like me, you were both fascinated and terrified by George Orwell’s unforgettable classics ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, then Dennis Glover’s first novel, ‘The Last Man In Europe’ (2017) is likely to appeal. ...

Reading Time: < 1 minute I just finished reading Margaret Atwood’s latest, as-ever fine, and perhaps most accessible book, Alias Grace. I was hooked from the start and remained so for all of the book’s 467 pages. The story...

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the context of a fading voyeuristic and moralistic public debate of the Australian Deputy Prime Minister’s extra marital affair, Sarah Vaughan’s new novel, Anatomy of a Scandal invites the reader to further consider the many...