I bought Grace on impulse from Brotherhood Books because I love Jill Paton Walsh, even though I knew nothing about the book. It's a you...

Another Rivers of London novella from Ben Aaronovitch. Winter's Gifts takes us across the Atlantic to snowbound Wisconsin, with FBI ag...

Darkest Night, Brightest Star is a fantastic inclusion on the CBCA Notables list -- a really timely, pertinent and immediate book about Aus...

It came out during dinner with friends that I had never read Ray Bradbury's classic, Fahrenheit 451 , and Sue immediately jumped up to p...

I'm not at all surprised that Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club , became an international bestseller and was ...

I have been re-reading Helen Garner's trilogy of diaries, which roughly follow the story of her relationship with author Murray Bail, an...

Disclaimer: I made friends with Penny Tangey at a posh school literature festival in Queensland when I was a relatively baby author and she ...

What Abigail Did That Summer is a novella, less than 200 pages, set during the same time as Foxglove Summer . There's some suggestion t...

My younger daughter is a big fan of space, and she loved Andy Weir's previous book (and the movie) The Martian , so she was very excited...

Irvin Yalom is well into his nineties, still writing and until relatively recently, still practising as a therapist. Hour of the Heart was ...

I bought Dancer in the Wings (1958) at the same time as Principal Rôle , which was a bit of a self-indulgent impulse -- I've now acquir...

Grantlee Kieza is a prolific author of Australian history and biographies. My younger daughter gave me Mr & Mrs Gould for Christmas, be...

I felt quite conflicted about reading this book -- Notes to John is not even really a book, it's a collection of notes that Didion made...

    What a fantastic start to my traditional (since last year) read-through of the CBCA Young Adult Notables list! I knew as soon as I began...

Since the first Rivers of London novel appeared in 2011, the universe of Peter Grant has expanded to include ten full length books, graphic...