Books & Poetry
This month our bookseller dives into the fascinating new diary collections of Helen Garner and David Sedaris, and looks at a pair of non-fiction books that issue a warning call about crimes against nature and ‘one-click America’.
Books & Poetry
Jo Case talks to internationally acclaimed Adelaide Hills writer Hannah Kent about her new historical novel Devotion, a queer love story with a supernatural twist, partially set in 19th-century South Australia.
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Charlotte Wood’s inspiring reflections on creativity have kept our bookseller engrossed this month, along with two new Australian novels and a pair of entertaining YA titles. Top of the to-read list is Jonathan Franzen’s latest sprawling family saga.
Our bookseller dives into John Safran’s eye-opening book about Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, as well as the most-hyped new release of the year – Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You – and two compelling novels from closer to home.
The fascinating story of a family of Australian spies, two new novels that have been compared to the books of Irish author Sally Rooney, and a Stephen King thriller about a contract killer are among the latest releases to hit the bookshelves.
South Australian writer Jennifer Mills’ The Airways is described as “a non-binary ghost story of consent and rage”. It is, writes our reviewer, an ambitious novel that explores what it is to inhabit a body, in both a physical and a social sense.
Themes of grief, loss, mortality, love and belief are traversed in Paige Clark’s debut collection of stories set between the present and an oppressive near-future.
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Books & Poetry
Books & Poetry
Books & Poetry