Reviewed by Antonella Townsend So, at last, you can judge a book by its cover! I was expecting glitz and glamour and oodles of dramatic romance, and A Question of Trust did not let me down! This is, definitely, a champagne and strawberries novel. The lovely, totally spoilt, Diana Southcott and her best friend, Wendelien,
Reviewed by Gretchen Winters Ewan McHugh is a journalist who has written for Australian newspapers, television and radio. His previous books include The Stockmen: the Making of an Australian Dream as well as other untold stories of Australians as diverse as bushrangers and outback pioneers. His latest book Outback Legends, contains remarkable biographies of the
Reviewed by E. B. Heath Nature is a book written in the language of mathematics Galileo Galilei There are some extraordinary people walking this earth. Daniel Tammet is one whose ability raises questions about the brain, the extent of its capacity, and even human consciousness. Daniel Tammet has been classified as a high functioning
Reviewed by Angela Marie Readers and lovers of Nina George’s “The Little Paris Bookshop” should not be disappointed by her latest novel, “The Little Breton Bistro”, a heartfelt and intriguing journey. It was the first decision she had ever made on her own, the very first time she was able to determine the course of her life. Marianne
Reviewed by Sue Bond In this densely written and complex book, Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson, the author seeks to ‘open up a creative new avenue for literary applications of trauma theory’ (1). Reina van der Wiel sees benefit in moving on from being trapped within traumatic experience, endlessly repeating it
Reviewed by Wendy Lipke With Sanctuary Judy Nunn has written an Australian novel which clearly highlights important issues of the time. Set in her home State of Western Australia this novel reveals the human side of the illegal immigrant issue. A motley group of nine people had been set adrift after a storm had smashed
Reviewed by Norrie Sanders The Melbourne Olympic Games, 1956. Australia is finally on the map. These will be, they suggested, the “friendly” games. The portents were not great. In the month before the games opened, Russia invaded Hungary and soon after, Egypt was invaded by Israel, Britain and France. Other countries protested by boycotting the
Reviewed by Pauline Seath Having moved in to a house with a large garden and backyard after many years of apartment-dwelling, I was feeling excited at the prospect of giving the rather ordinary existing yard a makeover. Totally “at sea” regarding design, I headed for the local bookshop hoping to find some inspirational gardening
Reviewed by Rod McLary Ridgeview Station is set in the Australian outback. Five years before the time of the novel, Peter and his wife Kelsie sold their farm on the coast and bought this large pastoral station – Ridgeview. They live and work on the station along with Kelsie’s parents Jack and Lisa. After record
Reviewed by Ian Lipke The distinguishing feature of arts that are ‘practicable’ is their “capacity to accommodate the concrete involvement of their viewers and to generate an activity that may transform the works themselves as well as their audience” (1). At the basis of this relationship is a series of processes or operations that make
Reviewed by E. B. Heath When reviewing a thriller, above all else, a writer must stay well clear of spoiler territory. For that reason there is not too much that can be written about the plot or theme of this particular book, even if the review comes up short. So I might metaphorically consider reading
Reviewed by Wendy Lipke Sophie Hannah, a poet and Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, is an internationally recognized best-selling author of psychological crime fiction. Among her works are the Waterhouse and Zailer novels, two of which featured in the TV series Case Sensitive, as well as two new Hercule Poirot novels, The Monogram
Reviewed by Rod McLary The Baltimore Boys is a novel about a tragedy. That disclosure is not a spoiler as the Prologue to the novel makes it very clear there will be a tragedy. In fact, it cannot be forgotten as some of the chapter headings – for example June 2010 Six years after the
Reviewed by Ian Lipke When Roger Penrose set out to write this remarkable tome he confessed that most of his comments would be of a general nature and relatively insensitive to issues of great technicality. His argument was that if only insiders are considered competent to make critical comments about the subject then the criticisms
Reviewed by E.B. Heath Everybody stands, as she goes by Cause they can see the flame that’s in her eyes Watch her when she’s lighting up the night Nobody knows that she’s a lonely girl And it’s a lonely world But she gon’ let it burn, baby, burn, baby (Alicia Keys, Jeff Bhasker and