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Interview: Maggie Joel on ‘The Second-Last Woman in England’ (Pier 9)
Maggie Joel has followed up her first novel The Past and Other Lies with The Second-Last Woman in England (Pier 9, April), which received five stars in the April issue of Bookseller+Publisher....
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BOOK REVIEW: Popeye Never Told You: Childhood Memoires of the War (Rodney...
The narrative opens with little Rod Hall, squashed behind the piano with his siblings and widowed mother, scared out of his wits while bombs fall on his home town in England. While the family is...
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BOOK REVIEW: Making News (Tony Wilson, Pier 9)
Tony Wilson’s second novel is a scathing commentary on tabloid journalism’s gorge on the greasy spoon of contemporary celebrity. As well as, almost fondly, rewriting football history—Australia defeats...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Genesis Flaw (L A Larkin, Pier 9)
With climate change on everyone’s mind, there’s no shortage of eco-thrillers on the market. Michael Crichton (Next, Jurassic Park) casts a long shadow, but this Australian-based debut deserves a place...
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Reviewers’ top picks from the current issue
In the November issue of Bookseller+Publisher magazine Avid Reader’s Paul Landymore was mightily impressed with Brendan Cowell’s How It Feels (Picador, November), a debut novel that opens in Cronulla...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Circle of Silence (Shirley Shackleton, Pier 9)
Last year’s film Balibo re-ignited public awareness of the six Australian journalists murdered in East Timor in 1975. Shirley Shackleton, widow of journalist Greg Shackleton, has now told her side of...
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BOOK REVIEW: Silence (Rodney Hall, Pier 9)
Rodney Hall’s collection of short stories comes with a cover quote from David Mitchell: ‘I read Silence in a single day. Brilliant. Brilliant.’ Both men are known for their very fine writing, and...
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BOOK REVIEW: Paramedico: Adventures by Ambulance (Benjamin Gilmour, Pier 9)
Everyone turns and looks when an ambulance screams by, lights flashing and siren blaring. If you’ve watched an ambulance go by in Sydney—or Johannesburg, Skopje, London, Peshawar or any number of other...
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