The Names by Florence Knapp
The reviews for this book have been glowing: ‘heartwarming’, ‘magnificent’ and ‘heart-wrenching’ to quote a fews. However, this book needs to carry a trigger warning:…
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A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
A Memory of Light is the 14th and final volume of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, which I highly recommend. Those of you who…
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
To be Taught if Fortunate takes us to the 22nd century. In this future, space exploration is citizen-funded, ‘exploration for exploration’s sake. Apolitical, international, non-profit.’…
The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions by Kerry Greenwood
In these uncertain, pandemic, times when it can be hard for even the most focussed fiction reader to concentrate, this book of 17 short stories…
Board Director (Voluntary) position vacant
The Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts is seeking a member to join our board.
Listen Again: Let’s Talk About Louisa – More Than Henry’s Mother
We were joined at the SMSA for History Week by Michelle Scott Tucker, author and State Library of NSW Visiting Scholar, and Rachel Franks, historian and coordinator…
Darwin’s Ghosts by Rebecca Stott
Rebecca Stott’s engaging book, Darwin’s Ghosts, features 1 great thinker or researcher each chapter, turning what might have been a dry overview of the life…
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Like so many women before me, I read The Bell Jar in my twenties. I thought it was ‘cool’. Sylvia Plath’s mystic was part of…
Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson
Hen and her husband Llyod have settled into a quiet life in a new house and Hen has found the right meds to control her…
Still Life by Sarah Winman
Do not be deterred by the lack of punctuation (Winman uses no quotation marks for dialogue) or by the strangely truncated sentences. Because once you’ve…
2025 Year In Review: Award Winners
Discover the year’s best books and award winners for 2024, focusing on the major literary and crime writing awards.
Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan
What makes a great crime book? A book that is about so much more than the crime itself. Midnight at Malabar House is that sort…
