What We’re Reading posts
What we’re reading: Stanley, Yee & Black
First of all, reading A Great Hope by Jessica Stanley made me feel old. This novel centres around the Kevin Rudd years of 2007 through to the turbulent years of Gillard and I found mysel…
What we’re reading: Rushton, Burr & Thornton
I reviewed Gina Rushton’s The Most Important Job in the World a little while ago (in short: it’s amazing, go read it) but I wanted to shout out its brilliance again in…
What we’re reading: Ali, O’Farrell & Jordan
I’m reading the excellent Love Marriage by bestselling and all-round literary rock star Monica Ali. (I fell in love with her work with one of her first novels, Brick Lane.)
If the book was …
What we’re reading: Dick, Krakauer & Leigh
It really, truly is the case that the less you know about Kay Dick’s tense, haunting, perfectly controlled novella before you start to read it, the better. So I’ll say little more than that and tha…
What we’re reading: Mellors, Davis & Allinson
Reading Cleopatra and Frankenstein was like falling in love for the first time: you’re so blinded by the glamour and rose-coloured view of the world before you, you never expec…
What we’re reading: McGuire, Miller & Li
I was lucky enough to have been given an early copy of Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li (publishing next week on 12 April), and upon finishing it I felt so grateful to have been able…
What we’re reading: Tabucchi, Ratajkowski & Lo
I just finished the short story collection Little Misunderstandings of No Importance by Antonio Tabucchi. It was recently published, along with the novels Per…
What we’re reading: Briggs, Caro & Clarke
A recent episode of the Backlisted Podcast prompted me to dig into the shelves for a copy of Fungus the Bogeyman, the Raymond Briggs graphic novel of 1977. Briggs, a graduate …
What we’re reading: Winn, Reid & Scholte
I picked up a copy of a book we have on the bargain table called The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn.
Raynor’s husband, Moth, has a brain disease that can’t be cured. Raynor has a strong con…
What we’re reading: Hinton & Gardner
I meant to read The Loudness of Unsaid Things at the same time everyone else was reading it, but somehow, it just never happened that way. Then, I was asked to read and rev…