Review by Jack Bell The most common thing you’re likely to hear about Shrines of Gaiety is that it’s Dickensian. That word will be on the back blurb of your copy, you’ll see it pop up in almost every review,…
The Last Days by Ali Millar, reviewed by Taylor Beckett ‘There was never any possibility of escaping God… God was the whole world, and I was his puppet’ Ali Miller’s The Last Days is a haunting memoir of a girl…
Review by Grace Harvey Based on a real-life shipwreck off the Dutch Island of Texel, Lauren Chater’s The Winter Dress promises an ‘intriguing story of love, loss and fulfilment’. It definitely didn’t live up to these heights. I was left…
Review by Danielle Aylward Once a thriving centre of stockyards and sheep stations, years of punishing drought have petrified the land and Nannine has been whittled down to no more than a stoplight, a couple of bars, and a police…
By Jack Bell I’ve always had an opinion that it’s no more fun watching someone be drunk in a movie than to watch someone be drunk in real life. Some people find cheerful drunkenness endearing – I find it obnoxious.…
By Phoebe Cuskelly The Things We See in the Light is a light charming chic lit novel, but fails to create tension or characters worth remembering. A novel of self-discovery and unexpected romance, The Things We See in the Light…
By Jack Bell As the wounded, post-war Europe of All the Broken Places grapples with the lingering effects of the Holocaust, so does its author, John Boyne. You might be familiar with his 2006 bestseller; The Boy in the Striped…
By Konstanz Müller ‘Hip hop and hymns: the two would always go hand in hand for me. My life would always straddle both. The sacred and the profane, all living on the same block, all divine in the end.’ Mawunyo…
Review by Ashton Darracott Set in one (pick any) of Brisbane’s suburbs, grade 12 student Henry, feet dangling over the edge of the rest of his life, falls in love with his best friend, Len. Post-drunken dare at a house…
Andrew Pippos’ Lucky’s: A Review By Rebekah Roma He still had time to make changes. Not to his nickname, which he could never shake, and not to his appearance, and there was little prospect of changing the flaws…
