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Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
Strange Weather in Tokyo is a tender love story that drifts with the lightness of a leaf on a stream. Subtle and touching, this is a novel about loneliness, assuaged by an unlikely romance, and brought to life by one…
Silver Buttons by Bob Graham
A new Bob Graham picture book is always a delightful addition to children’s publishing. His gentle stories celebrate family and home and embrace the wider community and multiculturalism. Silver Buttons is no exception.
We have Jonathan at 9.59am on a…
In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and collapse of the GDR, there have been many novels documenting life in the former Eastern Bloc. A recent book to emerge from the rubble is Eugen Ruge’s In Times of Fading Light…
Profits of Doom by Antony Loewenstein
Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein has travelled to Papua New Guinea, Afghanistan, Haiti and around Australia to report on a growing trend of ‘vulture capitalism’ where the political and economic culture encourages ‘corporate vultures to swoop down upon the carcasses of…
Fairfax: The Rise and Fall by Colleen Ryan
A common view, established over the past few years, is that the once proud and prevailing newspaper empire, Fairfax, is dying a slow but sure death. Colleen Ryan, who was a Fairfax journalist for more than 35 years, does little…
The Blood of Heaven by Kent Wascom
Four months before the Civil War in 1861, Angel Woolsack pisses blood off a rooftop in New Orleans, roaring at a mob of secessionists celebrating the withdrawal of Louisiana from the Union states. Not bad for a preacher of Baptist…
Griffith Review 41: Now We are Ten edited by Julianne Schultz
This tenth anniversary edition of the Griffith REVIEW steers clear of a self-congratulatory birthday and gets straight to the point: what does the future hold for Australia and the world? A cross-section of Australia’s writers and thinkers address the key…
Pureheart by Cassandra Golds
Award-winning author Cassandra Golds’ new novel, Pureheart, is a beautiful and multilayered book that had me contemplating its meaning long after I finished reading.
Deirdre and Galahad first meet when they are five years old, when Gal comes to…
His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Goldsworthy has laid himself open for inspection – like one of his cadavers from medical school – in this memoir.
Starting with his first sexual inclination, at age four, towards crank-handled cars (I recently heard a different explanation of…
The Beethoven Obsession by Brendan Ward
In the world of classical music, the 32 piano sonatas from the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven are considered the pinnacle of the art form, collectively recognised as ‘the greatest piano music ever written’. In the late 1990s, only a…
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