The Family Doctor (Debra Oswald) – book review
Debra Oswald’s latest book The Family Doctor opens with the shocking death of a young
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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.
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.”
White Throat (Sarah Thornton) – book review
Of all the subgenres in crime fiction the accidental detective is one of the toughest
Hideout (Jack Heath) – book review
Jack Heath does not waste a second in the start of his third book, Hideout,
Trickster (SBS on Demand) – streaming review
Much of both on-screen and written fantasy is based on Western mythological traditions. Witches, wizards,
Take Me Apart (Sara Sligar) – book review
Genre pigeonholing can be useful when potential readers are trying to navigate a bookshop but