Book Reviews & Author Interviews
Book Review: Chasing the Light
If you're fascinated by the Antarctic, enjoy a mix of romance and the devious ways of women, you'll love this book.
Book Review: Levels of Life
Julian Barnes' Levels of Life is billed as part history, part memoir, and is based on the variant themes of ballooning, photography, love, loss, and grief.
Book Review: Catch of the Day
This contemporary romance is about a chatty, small-town Maine diner waitress named Maggie.
Book Review: Monday Morning Cooking Club
This reviewer is not a good cook but, like many Australians (according to book shops), loves cookbooks.
Book Review - The Heavy: A Mother's Battle Against Her Seven-Year-Old Daughter's Obesity
When daughter Bea was seven and chubby, her mum thought the chubbiness was cute and cuddly.
Book Review: 12th of Never
Patterson has done it again. This is one of his best with multiple murders, court scenes, car chases and a newborn baby.
Book Review: Dear Mum
This is a real little 'gifty' book. It looks good, being hardcover and having a swag of known names on the jacket.
Book Review: The Toe Tag Quintet
This collection of five stories, revolving around an unnamed, retired homicide detective, are sure to entertain anyone who likes a good caper and a bit of dry humour.
Book Review: Alex Cross, Run
There are a lot of bad people in Alex Cross' world. James Patterson's most famous series protagonist appears for the 20th time in this aptly-titled release, pursuing three blood-chilling murderers.
Book Review: The Last Australia Day
This is one man's opinion of Australia today and its place in global problems.
Book Review: The Girl on the Stairs
Scottish writer Louise Welsh provides a thriller with good bones but not enough flesh.
Book Review: Little Exiles
A fictionalised version of Oranges & Sunshine or David Hill's The Forgotten Children, this is also about the forced child migration that occurred from England to Australia.
Book Review: Killer Heels
A young starry-eyed girl big on curves and talent lands a job in UK fashion magazine Style as assistant to the notoriously ruthless Victoria Glossop.
Book Review: Sex, Lies & Bonsai
Have you ever lived in the shadow of someone else's exploits? Have someone's shoes ever seemed much too big to fill?
Book Review: The Secret Race
This story gives a cycle racer's insight into the hidden world of the Tour De France, the personal challenges, people, politics and performance-enhancing methods used by a number of prominent athletes in the sport.
Book Review: The Secret Race
This story gives a cycle racer's insight into the hidden world of the Tour De France, the personal challenges, people, politics and performance-enhancing methods used by a number of prominent athletes in the sport.
Book Review: Assassin's Creed: Forsaken
This prequel novel to the video game Assassin's Creed 3 presents the diaries of Haytham Kenway, son of an Assassin but raised by the Knights Templar after his father's murder.
Book Review: Great Australian Ute Stories
This book is a collection of 80 short stories about the unique interactions, accidents and love affairs that ordinary Australians have with their iconic Australian Utility Vehicles (Aussie Utes).
Book Review: The Best Australian Science Writing 2012
We live in a world where we can access the accumulated knowledge of millennia from our phones and travel across the globe in a matter of hours.
Book Review: The Mountain
This novel, set in Papua New Guinea, begins in the late 1960s when colonialism was coming to an end.
Book Review: 101 Best Australian Beaches
Sure to become a coffee-table favourite, this 19cm square beach/travel guide is packed with beautiful images and assorted facts about some top spots along Australia's amazing coastline.
Book Review: Surfari
As a teenager I read Tim Baker articles in Tracks surfing magazine. At that point in time, he was "old", for no other reason than he wasn't at school and had a job.
Book Review: The Dirty Streets of Heaven
Angels might be all the rage in urban fantasy and YA, but this book delivers a very entertaining spin on celestial beings on Earth by mixing in noir detective thriller, plus a shot of courtroom drama.
Book Review: The Red Chamber
With China's international profile rising, it's timely that the Western world received an introduction to its literature too.
Book Review: The Mystery of Mercy Close
The Irish best-selling author returns with her mix of chick lit, light, social commentary and a bit of a yarn that's a little bit overstretched.
Book Review: And What Do You Do, Mr Gable?
Richard Flanagan is one of Australia's most well-respected writers and this book gathers some of his favourite short pieces, with topics ranging from the Port Arthur massacre to Hollywood screenwriting.
Book review - A Grandmother's Wisdom: Lessons Learnt at my Nan's Knee
The author is well known as a TV presenter, mainly of the highly popular travel show, Getaway. MORE
Book Review: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Mums
This is one of those good go-to books when you need some timely advice or a pick-me-up.
Book Review: Pole to Pole
You don't have to be a keen runner to be enthralled by Pat Farmer's Pole to Pole.
Book Review: The Red Chamber
With China's international profile rising, it's timely that the Western world receive an introduction to its literature too.
Book Review: Before I Met You
Life is full of messy moments and a good writer embraces these moments just as much (if not more) as those reminiscent of sunshine and lollipops.
Book Review: Assassin
Tara Moss has been well publicised as a suspense thriller writer - and not just because of her celebrity status as a model - as I had originally thought before I started reading her novels.
Book Review: What in God's Name
It's all about a major company and its many departments - which sounds pretty boring.
Cruise into troubled waters with crime writer Kathryn Fox
Kathryn Fox is happy her novels have a deeper meaning and serve another purpose other than for the pure entertainment of the reader.
Thriller Writer Matthew Reilly
It's a windy, rainy day in Sydney when thriller writer Matthew Reilly pulls over to talk about heading north to the heat for the Tropical Writers Festival.
Irish author John Boyne talks about his love of reading
John Boyne is probably best known for his book, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, published in 2006, and made into a movie in 2008.
Book Review: Happier At Home
This is my first self-help book. Not that I would describe myself as unhappy but I was really drawn in by the idea of becoming happier at home; or happier in general.
Book Review: The Search for Anne Perry
Joanne Drayton sets out from the start to paint a sympathetic view of Anne Perry nee Juliet Hulme, the teenager convicted in 1954, along with her best friend Pauline Parker, of murdering Pauline's mother.
Book Review: Ignorance
Marie-Angele Baudry and Jeanne Nerin (formerly Nerinski) grow up in the village of Ste Madeleine in France, during the Second World War. Marie-Angele is Catholic, daughter of a middle-class grocer and has a definite sense of her place in the village.
Book Review: Laid Bare
Jesse Fink offers up his life on an operating table, dissecting his divorce from his wife of 10 years and cataloguing the anatomy of his attempts to find love in the turbulent, murky waters of online dating while battling his obsessive compulsive disorder.
Book Review: When It Happens To You
Often the transition from acting to singing or modelling is a dismal flop.
Book Review: Amped
Okay, so I have definitely been on kind of a kick lately when it comes to books: zombies, end of the world, society gone mad...these are the themes that currently grab my attention.
Book Review - Antarctica: A Biography
For those who enjoy sweeping historical biographies, David Day's Antarctica is a polar reference piece par excellence.
Glenrowan
The siege at Glenrowan, where the Kelly Gang made their last stand, is part of Australian folklore.
Book Review: The Age of Miracles
You lovers of apocalyptic themes will enjoy this one. I did anyway.
