Books & Poetry
While wrestling with the challenges of being a masked bookseller, Jo Case recommends some reads for fans of big stories, science, politics, music and comedy – including one book that eerily captures the feeling of this strange year.
Books & Poetry
Set in the smoky shadow of Australia’s 2019 and 2020 bushfire season, Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams explores the loss of our world through the shattering of a family.
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Dystopian adventures, debt-trap misadventures, invisible illness, stories of quiet rebellion and a rollicking boyhood memoir … bookseller Jo Case surveys the strong crop of new books by South Australian writers.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges for publishers and booksellers everywhere, but as Michael Bollen points out, the book industry is adept at snapping back when its demise is proclaimed.
Adelaide Hills author Pip Williams and her friends happily wrapped their arms around each other for this photo just a few weeks ago. They had hugged hello and they hugged goodbye when they parted. They had no inkling it would be the last time for a long while.
Looking for holiday reading inspiration? We asked Adelaide booksellers and literary experts to share some of their favourite recent titles – from fierce, thrilling and laugh-out-loud fiction to true tales of love, war, fire and forests.
