Jane Doe January is the searingly honest memoir from crime fiction author Emily Winslow, once a real-life victim of rape. Jane Doe January Synopsis My Twenty-Year Search for Truth and Justice Emily Winslow was a young drama student at an…
Lynnette Lounsbury’s We Ate The Road Like Vultures was one of our dozen Top Aussie Reads of 2016. We Ate The Road Like Vultures Synopsis: Lulu, a teenage Australian runaway on an unlikely mission, knows bullshit when she hears it and…
Christy Collins’ The End of Seeing is a must-read, but not an easy one. One of our Top Reads of 2016. Read on for our full review. The End of Seeing Synopsis: You saw something here – something that connects this town…
Gun Street Girl is Book 4 in Adrian McKinty’s award-winning Detective Sean Duffy Series and one of our dozen Top Aussie Reads of 2016. Gun Street Girl Synopsis Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the…
That Devil’s Madness by Dominique Wilson ranks as one of my dozen Top Aussie Reads of 2016. That Devil’s Madness Synopsis In 1896 Louis and his father, seduced by the allure of North Africa, travel to Algeria in search of a…
I listened to the Northern Lights / Golden Compass audiobook. Whether adult or child, you will adore His Dark Materials Trilogy heroine Lyra Belacqua. This series is also commonly referred to as Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights trilogy. Northern Lights / The…
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Summary The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are…
Resurrection Bay is Emma Viskic’s multi-award-winning Australian crime fiction debut that has gone on to become an international bestseller. Resurrection Bay Synopsis Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside – watching, picking up telltale signs…
Fever of Animals Synopsis : Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award 2014 For nearly five years I have wanted to write something about the surrealist painter Emil Bafdescu: about his paintings, one of which hangs in a little restaurant in…
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s children’s classic (for all ages) is about our responsibility to live good lives. The Little Prince Book Synopsis Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The…
Superposition Synopsis: A Mind-Bending, Near-Future, Science Fiction Techno-thriller. Jacob Kelley’s family is turned upside down when an old friend turns up, waving a gun and babbling about an alien quantum intelligence. The mystery deepens when the friend is found dead in…
In The One Plus One Jojo Moyes does romance in the real world – life is complicated and never involves just two characters, it’s about ensembles. Read on for why we highly recommend experiencing this novel in the audio format. The…
What is the Business of Literature? Synopsis : This is the story of publishing as you’ve never read it before, told by one of the most provocative and informed voices informing its future. It’s the tale of prophets and storytellers, of entrepreneurs…
Review Summary: The world-wise, snappy dialogue in Malla Nunn’s Present Darkness, no holes barred action and uncensored brutality places it squarely in the category of ‘page-turner’. Present Darkness Synopsis: Five days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper sits at his desk at…
Nanoparticles Synopsis: In ‘Nanoparticles’, Lisa cannily observes the people waiting alongside her at the motor registry, from the harried mother of two to the man engrossed in his newspaper. With her characteristically sharp and tender observations, Charlotte Wood examines the smallest…
Cloudstreet won author Tim Winton the Miles Franklin Award and it is generally recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature. Cloudstreet Book Synopsis Two rural families – the Pickles and the Lambs – flee to the city after separate…
