This Issue
Helena Potter on her romantasy debut The Thread That Binds Us
The Threads That Bind Us by Helena Potter is a breath-taking new romantasy for lovers of Thorns & Fire, The Wind Weaver, and Throne of Glass.
Read on for a Q&A with the author.
No results found.
Features
I read a story recently about a woman who was shopping in a charity store in the UK. She was browsing through the ...
Following her 2016 Stella Award winning novel The Natural Way of Things, CHARLOTTE WOOD wanted to write something ...
CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS’ new novel Damascus is a bold and controversial undertaking. In it, one of Australia’s most ...
No results found.
Reviews
Like many young women with ambitious career plans, Bernadette Agius hadn’t exactly factored a child into her life ...
This is the story of Sally’s grandfather who is in bed and saying over and over again, ‘I’ve lost it.’
His ...
It’s a lovely quiet moonlight night and Moo and Moo and the little calf too are sleeping together on a grassy ...
This is another of those amazing annual migrations of our Australian birds. Every year Short-tailed Shearwater ...
Warami Mittigar. Hello friend. We welcome you to Darug Country. Cooee mittigar. Come here friend, And join our ...
As much as Anna tries to protect her younger sister and much younger brother from the truth, they know there’s ...
It’s difficult growing up in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else. It’s hard to keep personal secrets ...
Tom has big plans for his upcoming 11th birthday. It’s especially important to Tom that it’s more memorable than ...
If you visit the Elgin Marbles, as I did this year, you get a sense that they’re one of the British Museum’s ...
These 28 Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming will stir many memories. Mine were of the municipal pool ...
There were to be two races. The first, an open race based entirely on speed, and the second, a handicap race, ...
It seems as if all through my life I’ve been aware of a cat called Trim. Firstly, at primary school while learning ...
Lark is a tiny, remote island, several days from the mainland by ship, and inaccessible by sea or air for the vast ...
After leaving her fans on a knife edge at the end of book 10 in the perennially popular ‘Wire in the Blood’ ...
Followers of Ann Cleeves’ ‘Shetland’ and ‘Vera’ series will be pleased to discover that there is a new detective ...
Beautiful, but brutal. That’s one way of describing this book, comprised of three novellas, mostly about ...
Aquick glance at the impressive CV of Clare Bowditch shows a woman of many talents: an ARIA Award-winning ...
If ever there was an author who treats his readers to intelligent, witty literature it is Julian Barnes.
This ...
Yumna Kassab’s debut collection of short stories is a startling and skilful cross section of the daily lives of ...
Two instances of inhumanity more than a century apart led this British author to spend five years researching and ...
Hester Why is a servant on the run. Hester is not her real name and she has fled her previous employer in London ...
William Warwick graduates from London University in 1982. He declines an offer to research for a higher degree as ...
I’ve always been a bit incredulous at the idea that Australia is a country full of things that can kill you. That ...
Cat has been asked to go to the local ice-cream parlour after school on the last day of fifth grade. It’s with the ...
Impossible Music follows Simon, a teenage boy obsessed with listening to, and creating, music. His life changes in ...
It wasn’t Shaun’s fault, but his Year 10 teacher, Tenner, didn’t care. As Tenner slammed the ruler down it ...
A few months ago, my pet rat made a daring midnight escape. We launched a frantic search party armed with iPhone ...
Last year, Bri Lee published her debut work, Eggshell Skull, an award-winning memoir (and must-read) which ...
Many fans of Helen Garner might say their favourite work is her formidable true crime – Joe Cinque’s Consolation, ...
I haven’t always been a fan of crime fiction but The Night Fire might change my mind. Michael Connelly is prolific ...
Near-deaf Tuva Moodyson is a reporter at the Gavrik Posten, the local paper in the small town of Gavrik, in ...
Living under an alias in Croatia, Marin Katich has been brutally arrested and charged with a series of war crimes. ...
Cold Fear is the second thriller set in Greenland, following on from The Girl without Skin. The dense plotting ...
It was with very mixed emotions that I opened The Red Hand, as I have long admired and always enjoyed Peter ...
The plot synopsis of The Returns reads a bit like the blurb of a crappy sitcom you might find playing late at ...
Juliette’s safe routine working in a real estate office starts each day with her journey on Line 6 of the Metro in ...
Smith’s debut novel White Teeth was published to great success and acclaim in 2000 and she’s been establishing ...
Act of Grace is a compelling, sometimes jarring read that follows four characters whose lives are impacted by ...
The Starless Sea follows graduate student Zachary Ezra Rawlins as he investigates a strange library book that ...
Emma Donoghue blew my socks off with Room.
Akin revolves around Noah, a retired and widowed scientist who has ...
This is my read of the year so far – I dare you not to cry. Alice Hoffman takes well-worn paths – the Holocaust ...
No results found.
Back Issues
No results found.