Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians in this entertaining and witty whodunnit where murder has never been so glamorous. Everyone who’s anyone goes to Samsara, a luxurious and extravagant spa…

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Jin feels stuck. She’s at a crossroads in her career as a photographer, and lately she’s been unsatisfied with her marriage to her college sweetheart, Phillip. Phillip has begun expressing…

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Once upon a time, there were no two sisters whose lives were more closely entwined than Charlotte and Ellen. But everything changed when their mother died when they were teenagers…

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Benjamiah is a realist. He does not like anything remotely fictional, and could not care less about all the mythology books his father reads and wishes his son would indulge…

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It has always been Marco’s dream to study biomedicine at the University of Melbourne and become a neurosurgeon. But when he starts to suffer from panic attacks, Marco’s parents do…

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Reading this book, I’m reminded of a quote in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, when Jordan says ‘And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties…

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To those reading this review, I first ask you to imagine a city in your mind. It can be any city in the world, maybe your favourite one, or the…

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The winner of the The Readings Young Adult Prize 2023 for her debut novel If You Could See the Sun, Ann Liang returns with her third novel I Hope…

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Everyone thinks Lucy was the one who killed her best friend, Savvy. It makes sense – Lucy was found stumbling through the streets, covered in Savvy’s blood, and claiming she…

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For their whole lives, Joy Moody has told her adopted twin daughters Andromeda and Cassiopeia that they are both from the future, and on their 21st birthday they will be…

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