Robert Fairhead reviews The Waterfowl Are Drunk by Kate Liston-Mills.

“‘Lessons in food and family’ is a perfect description for this feel-good, optimistic perspective of being a foreigner in Italy.”
Irina Markovsky reviews Only in Naples by Katherine Wilson.

Robert Fairhead reviews The Better Son by Katherine Johnson.

Two Sisters tells the stories of Ngarta and Jukuna, two women who were raised in the desert of Western Australia. Published by Magabala Books, Two Sisters hails as the first printed autobiography containing text in the Walmajarri language. Two Sisters begins by reminding the reader of the cultural gulf between native Australians and the white […]

I didn’t want this book to end, just so you know. It was one of those books where the main character grabbed me in the first chapter. Then, I didn’t want to let her go. The Fall of Butterflies is about Willa, a small town teenage girl from What Cheer, Iowa (no that’s not a typo, […]

The Book That Made Me is a collection of thirty-two personal stories by some of the most acclaimed authors from Australia and the world. Each essay centers around the question: What books influenced you, stuck with you and/or made a difference in your life? I found it fascinating how every author approached their essay differently. […]

Enter the world of pornography as you follow the protagonist in Jack O’Connell’s new novel, The Skin Palace. Sylvia Krafft is one of those people with very little in life. She never knew her father and when her mother died, she became an orphan and succumbed to depression. She goes through life in auto mode […]

This book is for those who dare to dream. And who set out to achieve those dreams. Songs That Sound Like Blood is the story of Roxy Redding – a small town girl who plays a mean guitar and has the voice of an angel. She lives with her dad and regularly performs with him […]

Jessica Anscombe reviews Crime Scenes edited by Zane Lovitt.