Jackie Tang
Jackie Tang is a former editor of Readings Monthly
Review — 28 Jul 2022
Hydra by Adriane Howell
Anja returns from a catastrophic holiday on the Greek island of Hydra down a husband but intent on funnelling all her energy into her job at Geoffrey Browne, a Melbourneantiques…
Review — 28 Apr 2022
Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill
Michelle Cahill’s Daisy and Woolf is an impressive, ambitiouspostmodern novel that raises questions around race, class, feminism, Empire, the post-colonial voice and so much more. Told in dual narratives, one…
Review — 2 Feb 2021
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Though we’re only at the start of 2021, Robert Jones Jr.’s debut The Prophets already feels like one of the big books of the year. Set on an antebellum plantation…
Review — 28 Mar 2022
The Most Important Job in the World by Gina Rushton
‘Should I have children?’ This deceptively simple and universally common question is what inspired journalist Gina Rushton to investigate the complex ecosystem of ‘motherhood’ in our uncertain present. In 2019…
Review — 3 Apr 2022
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Imagine winning one of the world’s biggest literary awards with your debut. In 2020, Scottish author Douglas Stuart became one of just six authors to win the Booker Prize for…
Review — 27 Jan 2022
Found, Wanting: A Memoir by Natasha Sholl
When Natasha Sholl was 22, she woke up to the horror of her long-term boyfriend Rob dying beside her, his heart stopping with no warning. In the wake of such…
Review — 2 Mar 2022
Skin Deep: The Inside Story of Our Outer Selves by Phillipa McGuinness
How often do you think about your skin? Its biology, its cultural signifiers, its protective qualities and weaknesses? It’s the largest organ in our body (although this book taught me…
Review — 27 Jan 2022
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
A woman and her mother are travelling through Japan in late October. Under a perpetual mist of light rain, they visit galleries and temples, think about art, reminisce about their…
Review — 31 Oct 2021
Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy
July, 1932: It is high summer up in the Arctic Circle and the widow Ivanna ‘Wanny’ Woldstad is the only female taxi driver in the Norwegian town of Tromsø. When…
Review — 4 Oct 2021
Dark Rise by C.S. Pacat
Someone is trying to kill Will. They already murdered his mother months ago, and now they’re hunting him. Disguised as a dock boy in 19th-century London, Will is almost captured…
