Teddy Peak

Teddy Peak is a bookseller from Readings Carlton

Review — 25 Aug 2024

In the Margins by Gail Holmes

Literature has a way of transcending distance and generations, an ability to connect us to those with whom we have little else in common. Reading In the Margins, I…

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Review — 29 Jul 2024

The Echoes by Evie Wyld

‘The Echoes’ refers to many things in this book: the name of a rural Australian town from the main character’s past; the ghost of her dead boyfriend in her apartment…

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Review — 23 Jun 2024

Big Time by Jordan Prosser

In the dystopian, autocratic country of East Australia, the government controls all internet and media, borders have been closed, and a drug called ‘F’ proliferates – a drug that allegedly…

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Review — 20 May 2024

How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

How does a relationship fall apart? And how does it fall back together? These are the questions Myriam Lacroix poses in her darkly comedic lesbian love/hate novel. Each chapter throws…

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Review — 25 Mar 2024

The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price

What do transgender identities, pyramid schemes and the climate crisis have in common? The answer is Ernest Price’s Pyramid of Needs. In his eclectic debut, Price introduces us to…

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