Annie Condon
Annie Condon is from Readings Hawthorn
Review — 30 Apr 2018
Staying by Jessie Cole
When Jessie Cole is eleven years old, her father presents her with some baby mice he’s uncovered in their compost bin. She is determined to raise them, but one by…
Review — 24 Sep 2017
A Life of Adventure and Delight by Akhil Sharma
Akhil Sharma’s A Life of Adventure and Delight is a collection of brilliant short stories, all of which have been published in The New Yorker – an incredible accomplishment.
Sharma’s…
Review — 20 Aug 2017
The Burning Girl by Claire Messud
Claire Messud is the accomplished author of acclaimed novels The Woman Upstairs and The Emperor’s Children. The Burning Girl, is a mesmerising history of the friendship between two…
Review — 14 Aug 2012
Nine Days by Toni Jordan
Review — 24 Jul 2017
Common People by Tony Birch
In one of Tony Birch’s stories, a young character says, ‘You never told me that part of the story.’ Her friend Betty replies, ‘No, I didn’t. It was better to…
Review — 29 May 2017
Gravity Well by Melanie Joosten
We are told not to judge a book by its cover, but the stunning image on the cover of Melanie Joosten’s Gravity Well portrays her compelling protagonists exactly as they…
Review — 26 Feb 2017
The Green Bell by Paula Keogh
The Green Bell by Paula Keogh is subtitled ‘A Memoir of Love, Madness and Poetry’. Mostly set in Canberra in 1972, it is also an homage to the 1970s and…
Review — 29 Jan 2017
A Tragic Kind Of Wonderful by
Eric Lindstrom, author of the bestselling novel Not If I See You First, has produced another book with an intriguing title and a gritty, determined narrator. Mel Hannigan is…
Review — 23 Oct 2016
The Permanent Resident by Roanna Gonsalves
The sixteen stories in the collection The Permanent Resident by Roanna Gonsalves depict modern Indian immigration to Australia. Gonsalves, who came to Australia in 1998 as an international student, is…
Review — 25 Sep 2016
The Better Son by Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson’s debut novel Pescador’s Wake was highly praised, and her original, descriptive language made her an Australian writer to watch. While Pescador’s Wake was set on the rough seas…