What we're reading
What we're reading: Elkin, Rovelli
Each week our wonderful staff share the books that they've been enjoying.
Lian is reading Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
After hearing my co-worker Joanna rave about Laura Elkin's debut novel Scaffolding, I took the opportunity to pick up a copy of my own. This evocative novel follows parallel stories about two couples inhabiting the same Paris apartment, 50 years apart. In both time periods, the women of the apartment are undergoing a change, pushing against the boundaries imposed upon…
What we're reading: Sager, Savaş
Each week our wonderful staff share the books that they've been enjoying.
Aurelia is reading The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Every year, I always keep an eye out for the spookiest reads as we creep closer to Halloween. I've just finished my first of the season, Riley Sager's The Only One Left – and I could not have begun on a more chilling book. An unsolved mystery of a family brutally murdered; the only surviving daughter, Lenora, long-accused…
What we're reading: Stoneman, Hermes Gower, Burr
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Aurelia is reading Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend by Richard Stoneman
The only thing second to the amazing feats accomplished by and longlasting influence of Alexander the Great are the fantastical legends that emerged after his death. Richard Stoneman has written an entertaining, eye-opening novel about how different cultures throughout Europe and Asia have adopted Alexander the Great into their own mythology and religion, painting him…
What we're reading: Newman, de Kerangal & Street
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Chris is reading Sandwich by Catherine Newman
I have been seen.
Reading about a 54 year old woman dealing with parents, adult children, her partner and menopause while on an annual holiday was utterly, wonderfully cathartic. I laughed out loud. I cried. Sandwich needs to be read by everyone. It explains the physical and emotional turmoil of getting older; it shows the inner dialogue of resentment and love…
What we're reading: Symes-Smith, Christie
Each week our wonderful staff share the books that they've been enjoying.
Bella is reading Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith
As someone who grew up with a fierce love for Tamora Pierce’s The Song of the Lioness series, a cover with a young red-head with a sword instantly drew me to Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston. But the appeal of this book isn’t pure nostalgia – this is an incredible adventure story…
What we're reading: Magee, Myint, St. John Mandel
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Joanna is reading Close to Home by Michael Magee
A novel from a new Irish novelist always gets my attention and I’m so glad I picked up a copy of Close to Home by Michael Magee. It’s the story of Sean, who returns home to Belfast after attending university in Liverpool. He falls into old habits and a violent act threatens to derail him further. There’s trauma in…
What we're reading: Chang, Ganeshananthan
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Tracy is reading Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang
Hunger is a collection of one novella (the title story) and five short stories, all centred on the Chinese-American immigrant experience. Because the blurb says it better than I can, I will just steal a line from it: ‘Chang untangles how an immigrant can hunger for love, for acceptance, and for what they have left behind.’
I just finished the…
What we're reading: Patchett, Rushdi
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Lian is reading These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett was a guest at this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival, and hearing her speak on a panel with our own Chris Gordon was all the inducement I needed to dive head-first into her delightful collection of essays. These Precious Days is an absolutely charming, desperately relatable, heartfelt and humorous book that provides an insight into the experiences that…
What we're reading: Chenoweth, July
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Aurelia is reading Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything (Except This) by Elisa Chenoweth
I just recently read Maria Petranelli is Prepared for Anything (Except This) and absolutely loved it! This is definitely a Looking for Alibrandi for the next generation, only just slightly more insane.
Maria Petranelli is your average Italian-Australian girl, working at a gelati store, surviving her loving-yet-overprotective Italian family. When she decides to go…
What we're reading: Linde, Roth, Yamazaki
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Yasmin is reading The Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde
I just finished this recently and let me tell you, reading this one in public was hard. The smut is fantastic, with a great gothic, broody man to swoon over – very much a "I've been alive for 500 years and never let anyone close to me" type personality. I think this would be a…
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