Mark Whittaker is the investigative journalist and presenter of season three of SBS’s True Stories podcast. He is a freelance writer based… Continue reading > Given Names What do our names say about us? Produced by Tiger Webb, Given Names is a four-part series focussing on ‘the hidden ...
Hopefully they have enough in them to get you interested in clicking on the book and seeing if it’s something you’d like. So, for 2018 – we are Day 1 and I’ve managed to finish 2 books! Hooray! A Cry for Help It only takes one phone call, and Navy SEAL Drake Avery is ...
The Best Australian Yarns: And Other True StoriesRead the full-text online edition of The Best Australian Yarns --- and Other True Stories (2013).Jim Haynes
Way back in the early 1970s when I was an undergraduate university student, I did some sociology, and one of our set books wasThe myth of equalityby Tom Roper. It, and the courses around it, have informed ever since my understanding of how our society operates. Morton’s bookOne hundred...
Founded by Masterchef Australia alumnus and cookbook author Billy Law, A Table For Two has always been an intimate personal journal to document Billy's gastronomic journey with his life partner, Pete, also known as 'The Pom' on this blog. It is a collection of travel stories and culinary ...
Here are some of the best Australian books of this year, of many different genres such as memoir, non-fiction, true crime and psychological thriller.
This is one of those books that demands perseverance, for which we are warmly rewarded when we do so. I am pleased to read that she is at work on a second novel in a similar style asking the question: Can true love exist in a religious dictatorship in which the body and love are ce...
I’ve read three books by Hazzard before blogging, but since then I’ve just read one short story –“The picnic” – for the 1962 Club. Inmy post on that story, I referred to areview in The Guardianof Shirley Hazzard’sCollected stories. The reviewer Stephanie Merritt writes that “Ha...
of Victoria. She grew up reading the romantic suspense works of incredible authors such as Daphne du Maurier and Mary Stewart. Their books stirred in her a passion that would last a lifetime — a passion to write stories that would stay with readers long after they’d finished the books. ...
In the first eight months of 2020, the value of adult fiction sales had increased by 12% compared to the previous year. Children and educational sales also went up by 7% based on data from Nielsen BookScan. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people in lockdown books became a vital...