Reviews
Book review: Death by Shakespeare by Kathryn Harkup
Chemist and author Kathryn Harkup turns her microscope toward the grisly and gruesome of Shakespeare’s plays.
Book review: Fathoms – the world in the whale by Rebecca Giggs
This book is nothing less than a small masterpiece.
Book review: This Chicken Life by Fiona Scott-Norman and Ilana Rose
This is a book about people who love chickens and about the chickens they love. Their stories are told in…
Book Review: On Robyn Davidson: Writers on Writers by Richard Cooke
Cooke’s Robyn Davidson Writers on Writers is a cool, clever look at an elusive and enigmatic presence who illuminates the…
Book review: The Whole Picture by Alice Procter
Writer Alice Procter encourages the reader to think more critically and challenge the institutionalised paradigms of power and privilege in…
Book review: Law in War by Catherine Bond
Legislation enacted at a time of crisis has a tendency to erode civil liberties.
Book review: Your Duck is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg
Eisenberg can pack all the emotion and insights of a novel into a single short story.
Book review: The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay
The Animals in That Country is an eerily prescient story of a novel virus which leaves those affected with the…
Book review: Almost a Mirror by Kirsten Krauth
A novel of reminiscence for a different time: 1980s Australia and its rumbustious music scene.
Book review: Fighting for our Lives by Nick Cook
In the early 1980s, a then unknown virus, later identified as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), began to infect people…