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…
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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…
The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
A cross between Ocean’s 8 and Downton Abbey, this historical heist novel kept this reader thoroughly captivated from the first paragraph to the final sentence….
NOS4R2 by Joe Hill
This book is in the June new books list. Joe Hill’s newest novel NOS4R2 is a dark and macabre story, playing with the time-worn tropes…
Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe mixes reality with fiction in this book which is an unapologetic love-letter to the titular Billy Wilder, one of the greatest film directors…
End Game by David Baldacci
End Game is David Baldacci’s fifth installment in the Will Robie series, paring Robie up with an equally skilled agent, Jessica Reel.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler is a fictionalised account of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s marriage from Zelda’s viewpoint.
