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Justin Cronin on Crumbling Utopia
After almost a 10-year writing hiatus, JUSTIN CRONIN is back with a 550-page epic, which took four years and 17 drafts to write. KAREN WILLIAMS chatted with him about The Ferryman, one of the most anticipated books of 2023.
In 2010 Justin Cronin burst onto the literary scene with his novel, The Passage. The story begins in the near future and details an apocalyptic and, later, post-apocalyptic world that is overrun by zombie/vampire like beings who are ...
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Features
Good Reading dips into the first paragraphs of new books to give you a taste of what’s to come.
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Arkansas quarterback-turned crime writer Eli Cranor burst onto the scene in 2022 with a debut that’s racked up ...
New York-based ALEX SEGURA’s storytelling ranges from an acclaimed private eye series set in Miami to comic books, ...
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes, ...
Inside the new edition of Road Trips Australia there are many fabulous trips to plan. Here’s one we have on our ...
My going to sleep routine always involves reading a book. Holidays involve reading a book. A beautiful day and a ...
In her thoughtful new book, Engaging with Ageing, ANNE RING explores what matters as we grow older, giving ...
In Dispatch from Berlin, 1943 authors ANTHONY COOPER and THORSTEN PERL uncover the incredible experiences of five ...
In our monthly feature SAMUEL BERNARD offers an opinion on a range of literary topics. Want to join in the ...
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Reviews
Candidly honest, agonisingly sad at times, yet still bringing the life of a Greek Island alive and dancing off its ...
Henry Gaunt is a senior public school boy in the morbidly named Cemetery House at Preshute, a fictional school in ...
Readers are influenced by book covers, it’s only natural. And before I say anything else about The Wager, its ...
Based on real events, this deeply moving story is bestselling YA author Ann-Helén Laestadius’ debut offering for ...
Sad Girl Novel is Pip Finkemeyer’s anticipated debut novel and is narrated in a unique style of storytelling, ...
On the surface, Over This Backbone is about a young 19-year-old girl walking 600 km across the Australian Alps ...
This novel is an extraordinary achievement. The plot is simple enough: an unnamed Australian narrator is at ...
Saturday Night Live has long enjoyed popularity as a comedy vehicle. Sittenfeld has taken that show as inspiration ...
There are books that ideally capture the feeling of love, romance, and finding yourself again after loss and ...
The women in Ancient Greece were expected to learn the demure arts of music and dance, while the men prepared for ...
Sarah Hutchinson is lost. Her parents have divorced, she’s spent an unhappy time at school in England, revived a ...
The Curator is a beguiling story is set in a similar but alternate world to ours. A revolution has taken place in ...
It’s London 1847, and Tom Rutherford is on shore leave from his life on the sea. One day as he is enjoying his ...
Two years ago, while working as a nanny for Mia and Ryan, Tara, an Irish backpacker disappeared. From all ...
It is always a joy to come across an author you have never read before. It’s like finding hidden treasure! No ...
It takes a special kind of genius to create twisty, thrilling novels that can be read in a single satisfying ...
Red Queen is the name of a secret crime-fighting unit based in Madrid, with Antonia Scott – supremely intelligent ...
From his acclaimed, long-running series starring basketballer-turned-sports agent and sleuth Myron Bolitar, to his ...
The story opens in a remote part of Tasmania when King’s father is dying. King ran away from Blackwater as a young ...
In the isolated and drought-stricken South Australian outback, a torrential downpour is about to begin, swamping ...
Back in 2009 when I wrote a large feature for Good Reading, ‘Hot Crime Writing in a Cold Land’, about the Nordic ...
When a child disappears from her bassinet while her mother is in the shower, Detective Sergeant Kate Miles is ...
On 1 December 1915 women joined the South Australian Police Force for the first time. Community groups pressured ...
In 1965, Sydney’s Surry Hills district was the centre of a bustling rag trade. Several design and manufacturing ...
Reckless is a wonderful surprise, and I enjoyed every page. It is a memoir of Marele Day’s life, particularly her ...
Would you donate your dead body to science? Most people tend to avoid thinking about their inevitable death and ...
Humans consider themselves to be the ultimate in evolutionary design, sometimes forgetting that animals – ...
Kate Auty is a former magistrate who has played a role in establishing Aboriginal sentencing courts in ...
If you only have a vague sense of Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ interests and policies this book is a great ...
Michelle Obama, the former First Lady of the US, became despondent when Hilary Clinton lost to Donald Trump in the ...
Katrina Meynink, the exceptional food writer, is back with one of my favourite cookbooks of the year, From Salt to ...
Bao Family by Céline Chung is a delightful cookbook that takes readers on a journey through China’s diverse ...
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