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Kerri Maher on The Paris Bookseller
The Paris Bookseller is the latest novel by KERRI MAHER, author of The Kennedy Debutante and The Girl in the White Gloves.
As AKINA HANSEN writes, it’s a compelling story about the woman behind the original Shakespeare and Company bookshop – Sylvia Beach.
In the 1920s an influx of American writers, referred to as the Lost Generation, arrived in the city of Paris. Dispirited by the destruction of World War I, these writers sought refuge from their ...
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Features
ANITA ABRIEL is the internationally bestselling author The Light After the War, Lana’s War, and A Girl During the ...
KARIN TANABE is the author of A Woman of Intelligence, The Gilded Years, The Price of Inheritance, A Hundred ...
INDYANA SCHNEIDER studied music at Oxford University and went on to sing opera professionally in Vienna. We caught ...
LIZZIE POOK is an award winning journalist and travel writer. Her debut novel, Moonlight and the Pearler’s ...
Well, here we are in 2022. Actually, I’m still in 2021 as I write, as the way press deadlines work means that it’s ...
Like to have a taste-test before you buy or borrow?
Here's the the first chapter of The Cane by Australian author ...
Irish bestseller STEVE CAVANAGH and Australian newcomer PETER PAPATHANASIOU have both received plenty of critical ...
MICHAEL LEVITT is a surgeon and health bureaucrat, and the author of scientific articles.
Good Reading caught up ...
The Gosling Girl is a powerful and compelling story of survival and rebuilding your identity from dual-heritage ...
Professor MARCIA LANGTON’s updated book, Welcome to Country, is a fascinating tour guide for those of us wanting ...
Journalist NICOLE HADDOW is passionate about financial freedom but she wanted to find out if it was possible to ...
The award-winning science-fiction novel The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin made waves when it was first ...
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Reviews
When Hanya Yanagihara started researching To Paradise, in 2017, her notion of a catastrophic contemporary ...
Forget the opening line hook, it was the black-and-white photograph adjacent to the first page that swept me into ...
Beasts of a Little Land is an interesting novel which encapsulates complex 20th-century Korean history. The book ...
When ghosts haunt a building, there are added complications when the living person is ‘difficult’. Tookie works at ...
Regarded by some critics as the world’s greatest storyteller, Allende does not disappoint in this sprawling novel ...
This deeply disturbing but highly imaginative debut novel paints an evocative picture of a post-pandemic world – ...
Paige Toon novels are like comforting chats with an old friend. There’s laughter and tears, heartbreak and ...
Readers of Diana Gabaldon’s ‘Outlander’ series have waited seven long years for this ninth instalment. Worth the ...
The boy is the first we meet. He’s been lonely but when he meets the mole they spend lots of time together gazing ...
This novel is the third featuring Lucy Barton and concentrates on her life as she reaches her early 60s. Lucy, a ...
Translated from Japanese, The Cat Who Saved Books is a cleverly conceived fantasy is an interesting story about ...
This is such an original novel, a riveting, non-chronological plot with a cast of real and supernatural ...
This is a horror story. Not a ghosts and chainsaw wielding type, but still horrifying. Set in the not-too-distant ...
Right at the end of Gum, first published in 2002, Hay has a set of words: Adaptable, diverse, tenacious, ...
It’s a strident, quavering and strangely melodic sound, seeming to come from the desert’s heart. That’s the call ...
William Cooper became a leading advocate for Aboriginal rights in the 1930s. Through his activism, notably his ...
This is an absolutely riveting and inspiring book about an incredibly intelligent, gutsy woman whose great passion ...
The Moscow Sleepers is the 10th and most recent book in the Liz Carlyle series written by Stella Rimington.
Four ...
This famous author has always been known for his interest in history, whether in his prolific fiction or ...
When she moves in with boyfriend, Jake, Marisa has everything she wants: a lovely house in London and a handsome ...
This is our final opportunity to delve into le Carré’s world of secrets. What began with George Smiley ends with ...
DCI Kathy Kolla is a team leader in Scotland Yard’s homicide unit and DCI David Brock is a supernumerary in the ...
Once again Garry Disher had me up way past my bedtime as I was drawn into this story of a burned-out copper, ...
In this collection of 19 short stories, animal detectives of various species help colleagues of the animal or ...
This is a clever novel with an ingenious plot set in the Australian art world. Retired surgeon Mark Lewis runs a ...
It’s seven years since tensions rose in the wake of COVID. Terror attacks, protests and strikes were followed by ...
Scottish author Val McDermid continues to raise her own very high bar. This is her first new series in almost 20 ...
Western Australian debut novelist Karen Herbert makes an accomplished start with this rural crime tale where the ...
The Boys is told from the combined perspectives of actor Clint Howard and his better known older brother, Academy ...
To understand Akwaeke Emezi’s memoir, it helps to start with the Nigerian/ Igbo concept of the ogbanje – an evil ...
What we eat and how much exercise we do determines our long-term health. Unfortunately, more people are suffering ...
The Wiradyuri clans occupied the area west of the Blue Mountains around present day Bathurst and Mudgee. It was ...
There is a growing tribe of people online who have recognised that social media – Facebook in particular – might ...
Guy Rundle will be known to most readers as a long-time politics contributor to Crikey.com. Between the Last Oasis ...
Written and curated by English actress and author Rosie Day, Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon is the ultimate ...
Six Crimson Cranes is about Shiori, the only princess of Kiata, who has a secret of her own.
Magic has long been ...
Girls in Boys’ Cars follows two high school students named Rosa and Asheeka who want to escape their homes because ...
Everything I Thought I Knew follows the story of 17-year-old Chloe, whose world gets turned upside down after she ...
Ten-year-old Luke and 12-year-old Ben live with their mum in a house that backs on to Cabbage Tree Creek. It’s a ...
This was an amazing book full of excitement and cliff hangers. It grabbed my attention from the beginning with an ...
The Stardust That Made Us tells us that ‘From fish to fingernails, sand to Saturn, everything around us is created ...
It’s getting dark. I’ve had my tea. I’ve brushed my teeth and put on my pyjamas.
My Mum’s had her breakfast. She’s ...
Boris was a huntsman who was big and brown and hairy.
With beady eyes and spindly legs, he looked a little ...
For thousands and thousands of years,
Aboriginal people lived in the land we now call Australia.
We see them in ...
It’s early morning and the animals are stirring. We meet the early risers; a little chicken clucking, a possum ...
I am angry.
Really angry.
Angry, angry, angry!
We’re not sure why this little kitten is angry but we see him ...
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