Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro) – book review
Klara and the Sun is the first novel from Kazuo Ishiguro since winning the Nobel
Robert Goodman
Robert Goodman is a book reviewer, former Ned Kelly Awards judge and institutionalised public servant based in Sydney. This and over 450 more book reviews can be found on his website Pile By the Bed.
One Night, New York (Lara Thompson) – book review
Lara Thomson’s debut One Night, New York, opens at the top of the Empire State
Nick (Michael Farris-Smith) – book review
In the introduction to Nick, Michael Farris-Smith talks about his relationship with its “source material”,
The Shape of Darkness (Laura Purcell) – book review
Laura Purcell’s debut, The Silent Companions was a creepy gothic thriller. That book featured everything
The Family Doctor (Debra Oswald) – book review
Debra Oswald’s latest book The Family Doctor opens with the shocking death of a young
These Violent Delights (Chloe Gong) – book review
Chloe Gong’s YA debut These Violent Delights is a fairly violent fantasy set in 1920s
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Becky Chambers) – book review
Becky Chambers burst onto the science fiction scene with her multi-species but intensely humanist spaceship
Open Water (Caleb Azumah Nelson) – book review
Caleb Azumah Nelson’s debut novel Open Water is a deeply personal exploration of the connection
Dead Letters (Michael Brissenden) – book review
Australian journalist Michael Brissenden has followed up his domestic terrorist thriller The List with Dead
Olga (Bernard Schlink) – book review
“History is not the past as it really was. It’s the shape we give it.”