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Anna Funder on her new book, Wifedom
Internationally bestselling author ANNA FUNDER is back with an original and fascinating book which sheds light on the erasure of women and their contributions in history. AKINA HANSEN chatted with her about Wifedom, and the remarkable woman at the centre of her latest book, Eileen O’Shaunessey.
Eileen O’Shaunessey was a wife and mother, but more importantly, she was a person in her own right. She was a brilliant woman who studied English literature at ...
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Features
LISA SEE is a New York Times bestselling author whose works include The Island of Sea Women and Shanghai Girls. ...
Award-winning journalist JEFF GOODELL has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for three decades. In ...
MARK BRANDI is a Dagger award-winning author and his new novel, Southern Aurora, has just landed. Good Reading ...
In our monthly feature SAMUEL BERNARD offers an opinion on a range of literary topics. Want to join in the ...
Good Reading dips into the first few paragraphs of new books to give you a taste of what’s to ...
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Reviews
Our scene is set in the Kentish Plains in north-west Tasmania in the year 1874. In the Duggan’s barn, lit by ...
Do you feel the need, the need for speed? Or maybe it’s just not worth the risk. Dr Richard Harris – anaesthetist, ...
Otilla has run away. She is running through the woods and it’s getting dark. When she comes to the edge of the ...
What a glorious, if unusual, novel this is. Cuddy's structure is highly unusual, the main character is a saint, ...
Libby Hathorn has a string of books to her name, and along with those, come a multitude of awards. This latest one ...
In the third of Kate Gordon’s books about three young people grappling with various mental health issues, we find ...
Giselle wants to be someone people notice and often feels like a nobody. She struggles to realise who her real ...
There seems to be a developing sub-genre of popular history which takes as its departure point a particular year ...
Alison Weir started out as a professional historian. I reviewed her Henry VIII: King and Court about 20 years ago. ...
Two characters are featured in the novels that comprise ‘The Mitford Murders’ series: Louisa Cannon, an ...
This is actually two stories - one deals with the past, the other with the present. It is about history, memory ...
When Ros Dodson was a child, her family called her ‘Possum’ in Dja Dja Wurrung language – this translates as ...
If nominative determinism is a thing, then perhaps someone with the surname ‘Robin’ was always destined to write a ...
Make them look. Words whispered into Bernie Moon’s ear by a magician’s assistant when she was a child, but Bernie ...
Those looking for something a little lighter in their crime and mystery reading may want to try this first in a ...
Therese lives what most would call a privileged life. One of comfortable luxury. The novel opens with her looking ...
Eleven-year old Doris Kozlowski spends her days trying to get through Grade 6. It doesn’t help her desire to fit ...
There have been many mother-and-daughter accounts written, but Honey, Baby, Mine, featuring two noted US actors of ...
When I picked up Echo Lake, I was very happy. It had a map of the setting for the story in the front (I love a ...
What fun Michael Rosen is. His stories are just great to read.
Bunny is wriggly. REALLY wriggly. Wriggly, ...
Shay and Nonesuch are young and poor, surviving on their wits in Elizabethan London. Shay is a member of the ...
Yates has been called brave. He has been described as bringing light into the darkness around Post-Traumatic ...
The Swift Dark Tide could be read solely to delight in the use of language. But of course, memoirs have a story, ...
Readers with a knowledge of Catholic tradition might be aware of the Five Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, ...
Laini Taylor weaves together three short stories of enchantment and dark passion. This is a book for anyone who ...
Anna Funder is conflicted. She loves George Orwell’s writing but detests his treatment of women. She wonders ...
I must confess to not having read Ross McMullin’s Farewell Dear People, his first and highly acclaimed ...
Matthew’s dad is in jail. Now his mum has come home to tell him that they have to move down to a tiny town on the ...
The kingdom of Rabu has a society divided into an upper-class of artificial beings called Automae, and a lower ...
If you’re looking for a moreish detective series to add to your reading menu, then the tantalising books starring ...
The dying days of the Roman Empire in the 4th century was not a place for the faint hearted, especially if you ...
Guido Brunetti is a Commissario di Polizia of the City of Venice. It takes quite a few pages before a body is ...
The novel is set in the Scottish Highlands in a rambling mansion that used to be a zoo. The setting is as unusual ...
Tree hollows make great homes for little animals. In this beautifully illustrated book we see an old gum ...
This fiction takes historical fact as its foundation. ‘Tony’ was the Anglicised name given to the first Indian ...
In 1930s Sweden, Lina is young and beautiful and dying of tuberculosis. Dr Carl Dance wants to treat her with his ...
This is a novel of epic length and breadth, covering a history of the Korean peninsula as seen through the lens of ...
A little girl is told that when she was a baby she was very small. But now everyone is telling her she will be a ...
In the wake of the MeToo movement – and occasionally before it – film and literature fans have all wrestled with ...
For his whole life Bill ‘Girly’ Smith managed to keep the secret that he was a woman and not a man from everybody. ...
Photographic non-fiction books don’t seem very common now, so, this series from Aussie Ark is very welcome. With ...
It can be difficult in the ocean of crime fiction to conjure a sleuth who’s undeniably fresh, while still feeling ...
Despite the idea that everyone knows everyone’s business in a small town, there are also a lot of secrets and ...
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