This Issue
40402
Tim Winton’s call to action with Juice
TIM WINTON is an acclaimed Australian author and environmentalist. He has won the Miles Franklin Award four times and he’s been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize. He is the author of 30 books and some of his most notable works include Shallows, Cloudstreet, The Riders, Dirt Music and Breath.
His latest novel, Juice, is a propulsive read that is set in a distant future ravaged by a climate catastrophe. AKINA HANSEN writes.
Spring is here and with ...
No results found.
Features
Who of us can remember using a street directory to navigate around town? As you travelled to your destination you ...
Hypersonic Realism: The landscapes of Reg Mombassa is a stunning collection of over 200 iconic landscapes from ...
Selwyn Libraries are located in the heart of the South Island of New Zealand with four libraries in the townships ...
JAMES PHELPS is an award-winning senior reporter for Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. He ...
Ninety years after Golden Age Queen of Crime Ngaio Marsh published her first mystery, her homeland’s crime writing ...
Bonzer. Arvo. Tucker. Sickie. Pash. Illywhacker.
There are plenty of words to choose from to tell the story of ...
Fiona McIntosh is a million-copy bestselling author of novels for adults and children across several genres. ...
TRICIA STRINGER is a bestselling and multiple award-winning author. Her books include Back on Track, Keeping Up ...
PENN COLE writes magical worlds, feisty women, and angsty romance. Her debut series is 'The Kindred’s Curse ...
From balancing on a wingtip to circling with eagles, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have ...
From the author of Song of the Crocodile comes a new novel about women, creation, belonging and the precious ...
Drawing on a major discovery with tremendous implications, an Australian researcher uncovers the source of human ...
CHRIS HAMMER is back with his latest thriller, The Valley.
Read on for an extract.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Nell ...
From the author of The Girl in the Mirror, ROSE CARLYLE, comes a new cracking thriller, No One Will Know.
Good ...
In his book, Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids, leading expert Dr Nick Fuller has outlined six principles that will ...
CORMAC FARRELL is an environmental scientist and beekeeper, best known as the Head Beekeeper for the Australian ...
No results found.
Reviews
When Emily Maguire heard the amazing medieval tale of young Agnes, who disguised herself as a boy, followed her ...
With a name like Dennis Knuckleyard, our protagonist should be a villain. He is, however, a feckless, naive ...
Nikki Gemmell is such an exquisite writer. I’m compelled to re-read, just to savour her unique style, use of ...
Andy McPherson is, at his core, a creative person. His father taught him an appreciation of art, although his own ...
Damian, a young Irishman living in London, enjoys his job as a carer of wealthy, elderly people. His preference is ...
Mai Mochizuki has written a fairy tale for adults (translated from the Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood) that has ...
The Burrow tells the story of Amy, Jin, and their daughter, Lucie. While the novel is set against the backdrop of ...
He lifts his violin, glides his bow downwards across the thickest string. It emits a rich green sound, raising the ...
This is an extraordinary story about the complex life of Japanese art dealer, Haru Ueno. Laced with all the ...
William Boyd is a prolific and well-known novelist, having written 17 novels and numerous collections of stories ...
This zeitgeist-capturing novel delves into the characters of six people as their paths intersect and their lives ...
Natasha and Mitchell are middle-aged parents of daughters Lara and Willow, navigating their way through busy work ...
I really enjoyed this novel about two women, decades apart, struggling with fertility, family issues and ...
If you are yearning for a story with Paris as your backdrop, then grab this book. With three main storytellers ...
Ken Black – revered Australian artist, philanderer, irreverent obscenity-loving iconoclast – is dead. His wife and ...
Dutch writer Bakker tells a slow-burning story of a multi-generational family of hairdressers, who have sons who ...
Finegan Kruckemeyer was born in Ireland, grew up in Adelaide, and somewhere along the way gained a massive amount ...
One of the Good Guys is a lesson in two things; perspectives, and how even monsters are human. The story ...
Eustacia Rose is not your typical amateur sleuth. When we first met her in Devil’s Breath she was prickly, ...
We begin with the all too real horror of a school bomb attack. It is a modern nightmare where the life of the ...
This is a mystery thriller about the childhood friendships between four teenage boys that end when a decision is ...
Handywoman Barb Young lives in the beautiful coastal town of Bullford Point and is adjusting to single life, since ...
Connelly’s first ‘Harry Bosch’ novel was published in 1992. Now, more than 20 years and 23 books later, the series ...
Throughout his career, Swedish journalist and storyteller David Lagercrantz has had a deep interest in – and ...
Eris Island lies off the west coast of Scotland. Its isolation and dependence on tides reflected the chosen life ...
Tech entrepreneur turned terrific crime writer Ajay Chowdhury once again delivers a tasty thriller with The Spy. ...
Running with Pirates is an elegantly crafted and finely detailed memoir in which Gíslason recounts his trips to ...
If ever there was a body ‘in extremis’, then Smith owns it, and now has written a memoir about it.
She was born ...
One of the defining images of the 2000 Olympics was the shaven head and straight-arm freestyle action of Michael ...
Tim Husband has lived an amazing life, surrounded by animals and filled with authenticity and depth. After being ...
For a book containing advice, the title sets a low bar, but such is the humour of Tim Minchin. The book is a ...
James Rebanks, who, as well as being a successful author, farms sheep in the Lake District, once travelled to the ...
Science writer Lauren Fuge feels a constant pull to disappear into the big wide world. From intruding on humpback ...
Young men in the US became concerned when unsightly purple lesions appeared on their bodies, they had groin pain ...
As I’ve recently experienced, conversations about our intriguingly divided human brain – with its two halves – are ...
There must be few avid readers who encountered Jane Austen in their youth who fail to remain constant readers to ...
If you don’t know David Mamet, he’s one of those ’60s/’70s era intellectual New York based playwrights who’s too ...
Romi Grossberg moved to Cambodia in 2010 on a two-year placement at Tiny Toones, famous for working with street ...
As a parent, keeping my family healthy can feel like a battle. With endless marketing claims about what’s best for ...
The Mediterranean diet has long been recognised as the healthiest. The diet is recognised on the UNESCO intangible ...
This debut novel follows the journey of an autistic teenage girl as she grapples with the overwhelming grief of ...
It is really hard to do up your shoelaces while reading. I kept running late for school.
Madeline is a girl whose ...
Sami Bayly is such a talented artist. Many of her books, including The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous ...
This book is packed with fun. Sixty-three short rhymes with fabulous funny, often hilarious poems and David ...
From the authors of Wonderful Wasps, comes Fabulous Frogs. This book tells us lots of fascinating facts about ...
A family arrive at the beach and lie down their towels. There are sandcastles to build and feathers and sticks to ...
Four little bunnies have arrived by plane in Australia. As they alight with their bags we spy a little mouse who ...
Ann Cleeves, in her sixth and final book of the Inspector Ramsay series, takes us back to 1997. Ramsay has learnt ...
The screenplay for the film Sleeping Dogs (2024) was adapted from E O Chirovici’s The Book of ...
Lachy works internationally, but when his teenaged son needs him, he returns to Australia to take custody and have ...
I have read all three of Rooney’s previous novels. I adored Normal People (I read it in one sitting), and did ...
And So I Roar is the sequel to The Girl with the Louding Voice and continues the story of Adunni, a young woman ...
Off the coast of Spain lies the island of Ibiza. Septuagenarian, Grace Winters is bequeathed a house there by a ...
The cover image, and title of this novel are obstruse and beguiling. The title, The Empusium: A health resort ...
While Outback Noir has taken hold all over the reading world, thanks to authors like Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, ...
Detective Constable Craig Watson a very young cop, arrives in Gloster having been exiled from Sydney. The area is ...
This novel is set in Sydney from the 1920s to 1940s. In particular, the areas around Ultimo (‘Mo’), Newtown and ...
Like a Hollywood actor or director who's been in the industry for decades, Stephen King has had ups and downs, and ...
This is another scorcher from Australia’s Crime Queen. It's a story that will have you on the edge of your seat in ...
No results found.
Back Issues
No results found.