Reviewed by Norrie Sanders At the height of Saddam Hussein’s sinister rule, three women form an unlikely alliance that is born of deception. Two of the women are Iraqi from different social classes whose childhood friendship was severed by an act of betrayal and resultant tragedy. Brought together a generation later by a fear of
Reviewed by Rod McLary With a somewhat ambiguous title, People Like Her opens up the world of Instagrammers and sets out what it takes to be a successful one with in excess of one million followers. Does the ambiguous ‘like’ of the title mean ‘similar to’ or ‘have affection for’? Well – both actually and
Reviewed by Gerard Healy An informed look at intergenerational poverty in Australia by Glyn Davis AC, the former Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne University. It is both an easy read and a hard-to-read text, the former because it is only 70 odd pages long but the latter because it asks us what we are doing to solve
Reviewed by Patricia Simms-Reeve English/American author, Simon Winchester has written many fine non-fiction books, amongst them The Map that Changed the World and The Surgeon of Crowthorne. He presents facts and information in a way that engages readers and otherwise dry subjects are so discussed that his books are a pleasure to read. In a
Reviewed by Rod McLary The Spiral is a very appropriate title for this book given the word’s association with vortexes and whirlpools and the sense of being drawn down into the unknown. Beginning this book is very much like embarking on a journey into the deep recesses of the mind where – to continue the
Reviewed by Wendy Lipke For those readers who enjoy the intricacies of solving a crime, Lee Christine’s latest book, Crackenback, is a puzzle worth investigating. The author has followed police procedures and investigative knowledge to gather information from a diverse range of places and situations. Each new piece of relevance is revealed until the reader
Reviewed by Ian Lipke Strange and unusual stories have been a feature of Australian life since colonisation. As we all become more familiar with new cultures our collection of unusuality is expected to expand. We’ll hear other strange, and perhaps unexplainable incidents. There is a rich harvest to emerge as yet from indigenous and Asian