When Gaming Goes Dangerous: A Q&A with Z F Kingbolt
Thirteen-year-old gamer Beth loves fighting beasts and solving riddles in her favourite online game, Tordon. But she soon faces her own adventure when she and her gaming nemesis are sucked […]
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Top Review: Goodwood by Holly Throsby
Holly Throsby has released four critically acclaimed albums and was part of the indie rock trio Seeker Lover Keeper. Her debut novel, Goodwood, is out today – read on for our […]
Top YA Review: Cath Crowley’s Words in Deep Blue
‘Books, like lovers, mark and change us, and in turn, we mark and change them.’ Cath Crowley has written an article in our September issue about second-hand bookshops and the […]
Top Review: ‘Man in the Corner’ by Nathan Besser
Nathan Besser’s Man in the Corner was released officially yesterday, yet it’s already set to be scripted into a major film by Australian acting duo Rebecca Rigg and Simon Baker (best known for The […]
Golden Hope: An interview with Johanna Nicholls
Set in the gold-fields and back roads of recently federated Australia, Golden Hope follows equestrienne Clytie Hart as she travels with the roving Wildebrand Circus. Historical author Johanna Nicholls – who worked […]
What’s life like for a fox? Emma Geen on ‘The Many Selves of Katherine North’
Nineteen-year-old Kit works for Shen Corporation as a phenomenaut – a person who projects their consciousness into the bodies of animals bred for research purposes. This is the strange and […]
Top review: The Bricks that Built the Houses by Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest is a spoken-word performance artist, hip-hop musician, and is perhaps Britain’s best young poet. If you know anything about the Sydney Writers’ Festival, you’ll know she’s taking on […]
A Crime Novel with no Murder Scene: A Q&A with Anna Westbrook
Feminist, prize-winning poet, director of the Red Rattler theatre in Marrickville and now début novelist Anna Westbrook tells us about the shifting social sands of Sydney’s most eccentric suburb in […]
New Books in time for Mothers’ Day!
April is a huge month for new books – check out some recently released adult fiction and non-fiction below, plus some fresh titles for younger readers. Peruse our full gift guide if you need […]
From the Editor: Can Books Cure your Anxiety?
A visit to any bookshop’s mind body spirit section will show you a plethora of books to help you with just about any problem you can think of. So much effort […]
