Kate McIntosh

Kate McIntosh is the manager of Readings Emporium

Review — 26 Feb 2024

Outlaw Girls by Emily Gale & Nova Weetman

Ruby is a modern day hellraiser, a bored teenager with little direction in life and a chip on her shoulder. Kate is the sister of Australia’s most famous bushranger, determined…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

The Rumor Game by Thomas Mullen

Pearl Harbor has been attacked and America looks set to join her allies in the war in Europe. On the streets of Boston, far from the killing fields, there are…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft

Irena Rey is ‘Our Author’, a woman revered and adored across the globe for her brilliant novels, and her charismatic ways. No one adores her more than her tribe of…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones

In the 1950s a dam was constructed in Far North Queensland. In the process, the town that had existed there previously was emptied and flooded, remaining beneath the water even…

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Review — 1 Feb 2024

Smoke & Mirrors by Barry Jonsberg

When your mum drinks too much, your father is dead, your younger brother only appears occasionally, you have no friends, and your grandmother is about to be diagnosed with a…

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Review — 25 Sep 2023

The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama & Louise Heal Kawai (trans.)

At first glance one might be forgiven for thinking this is a crime novel. It is not. There is a mystery, yes, and someone died, but the further you get…

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Review — 1 Sep 2023

Ripper by Shelley Burr

The ‘Rainier Ripper’ murdered three people, 17 years ago. A truck driver was charged and jailed, and the small town of Rainier and its inhabitants have been trying to get…

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Review — 1 Sep 2023

North Woods by Daniel Mason

It has been said that there are only seven original plots in literature. If this is the case, then it is entirely possible that Daniel Mason’s latest book contains every…

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Review — 1 Sep 2023

Watch Us Dance by Leïla Slimani & Sam Taylor (trans.)

This book deserves your full attention, so don’t even bother picking it up if you don’t have a few quiet hours ahead of you, perhaps curled up in a big…

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Review — 1 Sep 2023

One Day We're All Going to Die by Elise Esther Hearst

Despite having a job that she loves, 27-year-old Naomi isn’t quite sure what she is doing with her life. She has never really had to forge her own path; coming…

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