I heard On the Calculation of Volume by Danish author Solvej Balle being discussed on the Radio National Book Shelf program, and because i...

  It's fitting that I've finished the final book the CBCA Notables list during Book Week, just after the winners have been announced...

  I had to wait a looong time for Randa Abdel-Fattah's first adult novel, Discipline , to become available at the local library; the res...

Raising Hare is the kind of book that I simply can't resist. It's the perfect intersection of nature and human experience, written ...

The Set-Up Girl by Sasha Vey is a fun novel about romance, crushes, sexual identity, misunderstandings and friendship. Amalia comes from a ...

I enjoyed Kate Grenville's One Life so much -- more than I expected to. She is just such a readable writer, even when handling material...

Amanda Lohrey's novels tend to be a slow burn -- don't come to her books expecting thrills and action. But if you're in the mood...

John Medina has written several of these Brain Rules books -- about music, about babies, about work, about teenagers -- and Brain Rules for...

  Emily Maguire's novel Rapture takes the probably apocryphal tale of Pope Joan and builds a convincing life story from the fragments o...

I am trying hard to understand the background to the dreadful situation in Gaza and the powerful emotions evoked on both sides. Peter Beinar...

This Season's Draft by first-time author Jason Gent is one of the last YA books from the CBCA Notables list. It's a slender book, n...

Years ago I bought and read Karen Armstrong's A History of God , which laid out the history of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, C...

  Regular visitors to this blog will have already noted my attraction to the woo-woo side of life: ghosts and dreams and astrology and tarot...

I heard Bruce Pascoe talking about Kim Scott's 1999 novel, Benang From the Heart , as a book that touched him very deeply, a book about ...

I was excited to read the next book on the CBCA Notables list, Of Flame and Fury , by Mikayla Bridge, who is a local (Thornbury) author who ...