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Kathy Reich’s Temperance Brennan Returns
Twenty-five years after KATHY REICHS’ first novel became a runaway bestseller she is still captivating readers with her chilling stories.
On the lead-up to the Australian launch of her latest book, Cold, Cold Bones, she tells KAREN WILLIAMS all about ‘dem bones’, and how much you can learn from a skeleton.
I am seriously overawed by Kathy Reichs’ enduring love of and dedication to the study of bones. She has had a lifelong career in forensic anthropology, ...
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Features
Happy birthday Good Reading! A ‘fire’ anniversary signifying all those years exploring books and reading. So many ...
Pat Cummins, current captain of the Australian test cricket team, is a superstar of the sport. With a new book ...
Read on for an extract from a memoir, We Come with This Place by DEBRA DANK
ABOUT THE BOOK
A deeply personal, ...
COLIN BURGESS has written or co-authored nearly forty books, covering the Australian prisoner-of-war experience, ...
ELSE FITZGERALD is a Melbourne-based writer whose writing has appeared in various publications including Meanjin ...
CHRISTINE SYKES grew up in the same street as the Whitlam family in Sydney's Cabramatta which she recounted in her ...
OSCAR FARINETTI is an author and Italian entrepreneur who founded the food store chain, Eataly, with thirty-seven ...
JODI MCALISTER is an author and academic who is currently a lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin ...
IXTA BELFRAGE began her culinary career proper at Ottolenghi's NOPI restaurant, before moving to the Test Kitchen, ...
Writing is considered a key foundation of civilisation as we know it today.
AKINA HANSEN delves into the origins ...
In DIEGO BONETTO's new book, Eat Weeds, he explains that there was a time for all humans when collecting wild food ...
Twenty-five years after KATHY REICHS’ first novel became a runaway bestseller she is still captivating readers ...
Good Reading dips into the first few pages of The Near Daphne Experience by Alison Reynolds to give you a taste of ...
VASEEM KHAN is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India, the ‘Baby Ganesh Agency’ series, and the ...
Books that are loved across generations and which stand the test of time are described as classics.
In this ...
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Reviews
This is a novel about the insidious trauma of post-traumatic stress disorder and the debilitating effects it has ...
This is a grand and sprawling novel which focuses on two women who revel in the comfort of their 80 years of ...
In the tradition of storytellers throughout time, Pirooz Jafari’s Forty Nights is a wonderous, lyrical journey ...
This book, set in Melbourne and London in 1991, is the follow-up to Cairo, Womersley’s novel about the theft of a ...
Lisa Taddeo is known for her razor-sharp writing that peers into women’s interior lives and exposes their deepest ...
Ruby McCoy (aka Red) is a rebellious teenager living with her dreamer/ schemer father, Sid. The McCoys have a ...
This is the highly anticipated sequel to The Miniaturist, an imaginative historical novel, international ...
Fresh, funny and utterly relatable, The Setup will be adored by readers who've ever felt a little lost and are ...
Told from two generational perspectives, Losing Face is the story of Joey and his grandmother, who are both trying ...
Things We Bury starts inauspiciously, with siblings reuniting in a small country town because their father, ...
A fair proportion of the books reviewed in this magazine receive five stars. You’d think that this recommendation ...
If there was a book that perfectly captured what it feels like to fall in love, then it would be this one.
With ...
I have been a fan of Ben Aaronovitch from his ‘Dr Who’ days. This is the ninth book in the ‘Rivers of London’ ...
It should be an idyllic holiday: Liv and her three best friends – Beth, Binnie and Ange – and their families ...
The theme of love in fiction can result in great literary classics.The best contain vividly realised characters, ...
One Punch is a story about two mothers both fighting for their sons.
Daniel is the victim of a king punch which ...
For almost two decades British storyteller Sarah Pinborough has delighted readers across various genres with more ...
Black River opens with the discovery of a young woman’s body, wrapped in black plastic, in the vast bushland of a ...
Ariel Pryce runs a bookshop in a quiet rural town. Her previous life was as the socialite wife of a wealthy ...
Poppy McGowan is back and her little house in Annandale is still not renovated. She is currently visiting her ...
Twenty years on from her ground-breaking debut The Cutting Room, which became a stone-cold modern classic of ...
Nessa, Jo, Harriet. Three women who have all been screwed over by men in their lives. Three women whose lives, ...
It’s the voice that grabs you by the throat in Arkansas teacher and ex-quarterback Eli Cranor’s astonishing debut. ...
If you have ever wondered what it would be like to spend a year in Antarctica, then read this book. But it ...
Daniel Genis is the once-wayward son of middle-class American Jewish parents of Russian heritage. He worked in a ...
This is an intense memoir of growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness in the United Kingdom. Ali Millar paints a ...
If you’ve ever shared a traumatic event in your life but, even though it was tragic, you treated it like comedy so ...
Sasha Swire is the daughter and the wife of MPs. Both, on retirement, were knighted for outstanding political ...
Like many disaffected, alienated youths, Louise Omer found belonging in church. Then, like many Christians, she ...
At age 58 Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with young-onset dementia. Thrown into an unfamiliar world, her mind ...
Antoinette Latouf shouldn’t have had to write this book. That she has, is a stinging indictment on white people. ...
The amount to which you agree with Julianne Schultz’s picture of modern Australia, and the directions we have to ...
This e-book’s style is a combination of a conversational narrative with complex scientific theories and jargon. ...
Sheila Hancock is a grande dame of stage and screen in the UK. Audiences will be familiar with her distinctive ...
Breadsong is the magical sound of a row of loaves crackling and hissing as their crusts expand. And it is also the ...
Do you know what a Rubber Husband is (this is a serious question)? Or what to do if you’ve accidentally added too ...
If Not Us is a fantastic narrative with a likeable protagonist and an urgent call to action on climate change that ...
That Thing I Did is about an adventurous road trip which happens out of the blue in a funeral hearse. It is set in ...
Remember that feeling of anticipation that one has at the beginning of the long hot summer holidays and the ...
Eleven-year-old Matt is finding that he has days when he feels decidedly out of sorts. But this is more serious ...
WARNING! This book is full of stories of gross things animals do in daily life.
You only have to get as far as ...
Did you know that the lowly lettuce was the first vegetable to be grown in space? And have you ever, as a child, ...
This is a story taking place all over the world, even as you read this book. It’s a story that could be happening ...
This is a story about a boy called Frances Bowl, but he preferred to be called Frank.
Frank was a very shy boy, ...
His name is David. He’s the boy with flowers in his hair And he’s my best friend.
David’s best friend is telling ...
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