Masterful. Suspenseful. Eloquent. Thought-provoking. These are four well-deserved adjectives that immediately come to mind when wanting to describe the soaring and scholarly debut novel, “The Herd” from English author, Emily Edwards. Set in the fictional English town, Farley, outside of London, “The […]
Sometimes a holiday is so sublimely, uniquely and searingly transformative, restorative and uplifting that one’s life is unequivocally and forever richer for it; in the days, months and even years after the well-deserved time of much-needed repose and adventure has taken place. […]
Navigating the oft-times treacherous, shocking and unforeseen potholes of life is frequently difficult – even more so when one is young, female, of mixed-race and living in the vibrant, yet at-times-daunting metropolis of present-day London. Such is most certainly the case for […]
The sublimely picture-perfect township of Darley on Sydney’s exclusively elegant Northern Beaches appears, from the outside, to be a utopian haven for the wealthy and well-to-do…..or is it? As English author, Ali Lowe (she has lived in Australia for sixteen years), describes […]
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.” These words were eloquently and sombrely spoken by Martin Luther King last century, and are nobly and life-affirmingly applicable to people around the world, both before and since they […]
Leaving behind a murky and febrile past, perhaps by even relocating to a new country, should be a relatively straightforward and even somewhat calculatedly cold and clinical procedure – or should it? Such a vehemently audacious manoeuvre is firmly embedded at the […]
Australian universities, and their accompanying residential colleges, are, in theory at least, fortified and luminous bastions of respectability and accountability. This noble notion, however, is searingly and brutally displaced in Sydney writer Diana Reid’s reflective and disarming debut novel, “Love and Virtue”. […]
America, like Australia, is endowed with a plethora of great migrant success stories. Nowhere in America is there a veritable melting pot of nationalities and cultures more abundant than the perpetually buzzing metropolis of Los Angeles, in the state of California. It […]
Annual summer beach holidays have an intrinsic capacity to instil in us an overriding sense of wonder, hope and the unshakeable belief that these sublimely carefree days will last forever. Such is most certainly the case in American author Miranda Cowley Heller’s […]
When much-loved and highly revered Australian radio and television star, Kate Langbroek, along with her husband, bar owner Peter Lewis, made the bold, optimistic and undeniably courageous decision to move themselves and their four children (son Lewis, fifteen, daughter Sunday Lil, thirteen, […]
Those in the upper echelons of a rigidly class-structured society, such as that which exists in modern-day England, appear to breathe rarefied air, and have lives that are seemingly effortless and fluid in nature. Such is certainly the case for young, highly-privileged […]
I’d like to make a not-so-secret confession. I was never going to be disappointed by a holiday to North Stradbroke Island (or “Straddie” as it is affectionately known by the locals and return visitors alike). Situated in the picture-perfect environs of the […]
The Astons had been the perfect upper-middle-class family – at least in terms of appearances – up until not so long ago. Stephen, the father was, and still is, a much-revered and celebrated heart surgeon. Pamela, his wife, was a deeply devoted […]
It all sounds in print to be so civilised and soul-enriching – a three night writing retreat in the remote yet idyllic environs of coastal Western Australia, with bestselling author, Jan Goldstein. Yet this writing retreat has several life altering twists; the […]
Can you ever really know someone in their entirety? What if the person you married wasn’t who they led you to believe they were? What if your entire relationship with your partner was based on a lie? These are the persistently […]
Breathtaking. Spellbinding. Classy. Elegant. These are the resolutely deserved adjectives that come to mind to describe Australian author, Vanessa McCausland’s, latest evocatively transformative novel, “The Beautiful Words”. The novel fluctuates effortlessly and seamlessly between Palm Beach (an idyllic seaside locale on […]
“A feeling of strong or constant affection for a person”. Such is the sublime concept of love defined; a feeling and outwardly manifested force that has been given and received by myriad folk through the ages, and is still in powerful […]
For those living on the precarious outer-rim of the sphere of modern society (which includes those labelled ‘disabled’, among other marginalised groups), both subtle and solidly brutal words and acts of discrimination frequently penetrate to the very core of the being […]
In one’s years as a young adult, relationships – both in terms of friendships and romantic liaisons – are often intricately fraught with painfully nuanced angst and heartbreaking regret. Such is certainly the case in well-established Irish author, Sally Rooney’s, latest […]
Some 38 000 Australians go missing each year; ninety-nine percent of these people are located within a year with the assistance of the public. In “The Way It Is Now”, the murkily menacing new crime novel by prolific Australian author Garry […]
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