Anna Rotar
Anna Rotar is a former Readings Carlton bookseller
Review — 19 Aug 2018
The Piranhas by Roberto Saviano
Roberto Saviano is probably best known for his internationally best-selling book Gomorrah. Both the book and the subsequent movie catapulted the author and the Italian mafia into the literary…
Review — 22 Jul 2018
Trace: Who Killed Maria James? by Rachael Brown
At number 736 High Street Thornbury on 17 June 1980, Maria James was stabbed sixty-eight times in a frenzied attack at the back of the bookshop she owned and lived…
Review — 24 Jun 2018
I Will Be Complete by Glen David Gold
I love this book. There, I’ve said it. I love it and this is why.
I Will Be Complete is the autobiography that took years for the author to write…
Review — 28 May 2018
Florida by Lauren Groff
When I think of the American state of Florida, I think of Miami, Disney World, sun-drenched beach days and the Seinfelds living it up at Del Boca Vista. Florida…
Review — 25 Feb 2018
The Dictionary of Animal Languages by Heidi Sopinka
In 2009 Heidi Sopinka travelled to Mexico City to interview the artist Leonora Carrington. She spent two whole days talking about love, art and loss. It was by this meeting…
