Tye Cattanach
Tye Cattanach is former bookseller at Readings Carlton
Review — 2 Mar 2022
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
‘“What you have to understand,” she says “is that things can thrive in unimaginable conditions. All they need is the right sort of skin.”’
I first encountered Julia Armfield’s enormous…
Review — 1 Mar 2022
A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft
Seventeen-year-old Maggie Welty has lived her entire life on the outskirts of Wickdon, a town that has never fully welcomed or accepted her. Her mother Evelyn Welty (an alchemist) left…
Review — 28 Mar 2022
A Solitary Walk on the Moon by Hilde Hinton
A Solitary Walk on the Moon is one of those rare and lovely books that instantly transports you into its pages, where what seems a deceptively simple premise for a…
Review — 27 Jan 2022
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Black Cake is an expansive, engrossing, multi-layered story, encompassing multiple generations of a broken family. Estranged siblings Benny and Byron are reluctantly brought back together in their deceased mother’s home…
Review — 17 Jan 2022
Oppositions by Mary Gaitskill
In The Observer’s review of Mary Gaitskill’s new book, Oppositions, Abhrajyoti Chakraborty writes: ‘Gaitskill is gloriously trenchant, but never gimmicky, in these unsparing essays’. There it was, the word…
Review — 27 Jan 2022
The Keepers by Al Campbell
Al Campbell is a mother and full-time carer of two sons with autism. She is also a phenomenal writer. The Keepers is her first novel, and I can honestly say…
Review — 16 Mar 2022
The Sorrow Stone by Kári Gíslason
The Sorrow Stone by Kári Gíslason is without doubt the book I was most looking forward to reading this year. I have been an avid fan of his work since…
Review — 31 Oct 2021
The Fell by Sarah Moss
It is my belief that Sarah Moss is the undisputed queen of taking everyday stories that seem ordinary at first glance, and stuffing them full of delicious, near unbearable tension…
Review — 2 Nov 2021
How to End a Story: Diaries, 1995–1998 by Helen Garner
One can only imagine the enormous bravery it must take to publish a diary. Sharing your most private thoughts with the world is not for the faint of heart. But…
Review — 3 Oct 2021
The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life by Charlotte Wood
In the preface of The Luminous Solution, Charlotte Wood muses upon the bookshelf positioned directly behind her writing chair. Wood is unsentimental about keeping the vast majority of books…
