Reviewed by Wendy Lipke Every now and again, a novel comes along that is so different, so affecting and so unforgettable, that you simply must tell everyone you know to read it…you will never forget this one – for all the right reasons. — Heat magazine The novel Together by Julie Cohen is one of
Reviewed by Dianne Nielsen He drank with Ava Gardner, Clive James and Truman Capote, fished with Hemingway, and debated with Churchill…and that was only part of his remarkable story. Alan Moorehead escaped (his word) Melbourne in 1936 for a successful journalistic career in Britain and Europe. He was present at many of the great historical
Reviewed by Dianne Nielsen Having enjoyed Sanjida Kay’s first book Bone by Bone I opened The Stolen Child in anticipation of a similar reading experience. I was not prepared for the tension that gripped and released then gripped again. This is a book that is full of darkness. The story concerns a young English couple
Reviewed by Gretchen Winters ‘Gold can be trusted where governments cannot. An ounce of gold could buy roughly the same amount of bread today as it did in ancient Rome. No other currency has stood the test of time.’(Prologue to this book) It’s hard to resist a story written by a real-life Indiana Jones.
Reviewed by Gretchen Winters I did not enjoy reading this first novel by Peter Polites. It was raw, depressing, and contained just too much information about the gay community and the Greek boy, Bucky. While Peter Polites has obvious writing ability I felt there was too much shock value contained in every chapter. I’ve read
Reviewed by Angela Marie ‘Telly!’ my baby sister cried one last time. As I lifted the bat. Had a family. Once. With her latest novel, RIGHT BEHIND YOU, author Lisa Gardner strips away the fairy tale that all families love and protect their children. In young Sharlah and Telly Ray Nash’s world, A
Reviewed by Wendy Lipke Short Cuts to Glory was an ABC TV Entertainment production based on an original idea by Helen Greenwood. This book was written and introduced by Matt Okine, a regular presenter on several TV shows including ABC TV’s It’s a Date and Dirty Laundry Live and SBS’s Legally Brown. It includes just
Reviewed by Ian Lipke Emma Viskic does not wait to make an impact. On the first page a street bum gives handicapped Caleb Zelic a brief note, and the action is underway. The murder of a young woman follows and Caleb investigates. Deaf since childhood, and struggling with life’s challenges, Caleb is upset by the
Reviewed by Wendy Lipke When I look back I am utterly appalled at what I did, at who I was. Yes, I was insecure, yes, I was worried about losing my precarious place in the social pecking order, but everyone had to exist in that hierarchy, didn’t they? But not everyone did what I did.
Reviewed by Pauline Seath A confessed “bookaholic” my preference lies in non-fiction. I was delighted by my latest read, A Paris Year, by Janice MacLeod. I chose this book mainly because I have never been to Paris and was interested in the author’s quote on the cover “My day to day adventures in the most
Reviewed by Dr Kath Huxley Words on Screen is a fascinating and scholarly oeuvre by Michel Chion that has been admirably translated into English by Claudia Gorbman. It concentrates entirely on a little thought of, but highly appreciated aspect of cinema and film, the written word. Chion, well known for his originality of thought and
Reviewed by Antonella Townsend Detox diets, in my mind, are associated with friends that bounce around in flashing, upholstered roller-skate type footwear with weird names like Under Armour. They pop in to say hello, after a ten-kilometre run, to advocate the latest fad ‘detox’ that, apparently, will change my life. Seriously? Last year’s holiday was
Reviewed by Gretchen Winters I admired the blistering honesty of the new book by Ariel Levy, a critically acclaimed New Yorker journalist and the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs. Frustrated with her lowly and low-paying position entering other journalists’ stories for New York magazine into the computer, as well as inputting crossword puzzles designed by
Reviewed by Clare W. Brook Given the current examples of national leadership bordering on the bizarre it is arguably time for us all to attempt a deeper analysis of the political, and hopeful, earn the politicians we deserve. In this Stuart Hall can be recommended as a guide. Although his study is specific to British
Reviewed by E.B. Heath “ … a chess playing machine has been a holy grail since long before it was possible … I just happened to be the human holding the grail when it was finally in science’s grasp.” Every leap forward in Artificial Intelligence technology (AI) is accompanied by alarm and despondency; dire warnings