Tuesday, 17 June 2025
An in-joke with my sister recently led me to revisit Odo Hirsch’s Bartlett and the Ice Voyage, an audiobook we once listened to on a road trip as kids. The...

Tuesday, 10 June 2025
Cher Tan’s Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging. I’ve worked with Cher before and have been a fan of her writing for a long time. Cher was really one of the first...

Tuesday, 20 May 2025
I have been so deep in research for When Sleeping Women Wake that I haven’t read much Australian fiction over the past few years. The most memorable Australian fiction I...

Tuesday, 13 May 2025
I’m currently reading the First Nations Classics out with UQP, and I’ve been loving every book from the series. There are about 16 books published, with 4 more coming in the...

Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Losing Face by George Haddad. He knows something about the complicated nature of the human soul. I can’t wait to see what he does next.

Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine – a book that is completely fascinating, heartbreaking, measured and fair. There’s a pace and a clarity in Lech’s writing that is so refreshing.

Tuesday, 18 February 2025
I’m reading a book about psychotherapy called The Talking Cure, published by Macmillan in 2019. One of the authors has a therapy podcast I’m obsessed with called Three Associating (I...

Tuesday, 4 February 2025
Honestly, I think Australian fiction is the strongest out there. This country has amazing writers, and I’ll almost always try to pick out an Australian to read, not out of...

Tuesday, 21 January 2025
I was completely engrossed by Emily Maguire’s Rapture: it’s immersive, visceral and thrillingly original.