Reviews

Reviewed by Rod McLary Mark Twain once said ‘apparently, there is nothing that cannot happen today’. Strange as it may seem, this quote is quite apposite in relation to Jonathan Kellerman’s latest Alex Delaware story. The Wedding Guest begins as expected in that there is a wedding. However – and it is an important ‘however’ –

  Reviewed by Wendy Lipke Although I personally cannot see the $ value asked, in such a pocket-sized book, especially one about politics in Australia, this book, On Merit, is just one published under the genre Little Books on Big Ideas. The author, Paula Matthewson, is a political columnist with The New Daily and editor

  Reviewed by Gerard Healy A 16 year-old girl named Skye moves to New York and enrolls, with her twin brother Red, at an elite private school. While she navigates the difficult world of wealthy classmates, we are told of the strange disappearance of three other new girls in the recent past. Red gains entry

Reviewed by E.B. Heath An old Chinese adage counsels that ‘A picture paints a thousand words’ … well, whoever in the Middle Kingdom came up with that had not the opportunity to read Driving into the Sun.   What is going on in this novel would require an image the length of the Bayeux Tapestry, and

Reviewed by Wendy Lipke Esther Campion’s second novel The House of Second Chances includes some of the characters who dominated the storyline in her first novel Leaving Ocean Road although the author states that this second book is not designed to be a sequel. The House of Second Chances is set predominantly in Ireland, a

Reviewed by Wendy Lipke The Change Makers by Shaun Carney contains words of wisdom from twenty-five of Australia’s successful leaders in their field. They are quite diverse, thirteen are women and twelve men. They are heads of various organisations ranging from sport to education and charity ventures. There is a detective Chief Inspector, Chief executive

Reviewed by E. B. Heath Griffith Review 63: writing country – a compilation of essays, memoir, reportage, fiction, poem, and a photo essay of eight images – presents differing perspectives on the connection between people and place. The contributors are writing from a range of disciplines: science, politics, history, a lived experience, or fictionalised accounts.