Julia Jackson
Julia Jackson is the assistant manager of Readings Carlton
Review — 1 Aug 2021
The Women of Little Lon by Barbara Minchinton
If I asked if you knew about Madame Brussels, I’d forgive you for responding: ‘oh, the rooftop bar at the Spring Street end of Bourke Street, where the staff used…
Review — 1 Aug 2021
The Orchard Murders by Robert Gott
For our Crime Book of the Month we return to 1944 and gloomy, wartime Melbourne in Robert Gott’s The Orchard Murders, the fourth instalment in his Holiday Murders series…
Blog post — 3 May 2021
The best new crime reads in May
This month, Julia Jackson is stepping in as our crime specialist to share 10 great crime reads to look out for this month.
CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH
Review — 26 Apr 2021
Unsheltered by Clare Moleta
In a landscape rent by an undefined climate catastrophe, societal breakdown and possible armed conflict, a network of refugee camps, settlements and supply stations house what remains of humankind. Though…
Review — 28 Mar 2021
Sex, Lies and Question Time by Kate Ellis
Well, this book could not have come at a better time, could it? Sex, Lies and Question Time came to me for review hot on the heels of International Women’s…
Review — 2 Feb 2021
A Net For Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
Last year’s big historical fiction release was Hilary Mantel’s hefty conclusion to her brilliant Tudor-era trilogy The Mirror and the Light. This year’s could well be historian Lucy Jago’s…
Review — 2 Feb 2021
The Imitator by Rebecca Starford
In writing this review I simply can’t ignore the fact that 2021 will mark the 70th anniversary of the defections of Soviet agents Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean across the…
Review — 1 Oct 2020
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
All southpaws can attest to our brilliance: take Albert Einstein or Marie Curie – both brilliant lefties. See also, Leonardo da Vinci. I might be biased here, but combine that…
Review — 2 Aug 2020
Body Count by Paddy Manning
As I write this review, I’m conscious of that we’re about to clock twelve months since the onset of the fires in New South Wales that would get out of…
Review — 6 Sep 2020
The Morbids by Ewa Ramsey
About a month or so ago, our head book buyer Alison Huber flagged this book with me, saying that it was something I might like. Oh yeah, I thought…
