Midway through the book i was keen to accord the book credit as a survivalist’s road- trip. That heading lost its mantra as coping mechanism overtook the shock and horror of watching your world become a watery quagmire leading to …
When presented with Melanie’s book, I sat up straight in my chair as this wunderkind never does anything by half, and this project is no exception. Reviews of floral books generally highlight their utility for either artistic inspiration, historical reference …
Above : author pic Marinos Sariyannis
With a title that has a tantalising hook embedded in the first line, how could I resist. This book is a tome filled to the brim with a comprehensive survey, the first, of Ottoman …
A winning title, HOW TO DRESS FOR OLD AGE follows through as a triumphant text exploring and navigating the emotional terrain of adult children caring for their ageing parents.
The emotional and intellectual labour of late life care for an …
The Japanese bombing of Darwin In World War 2 has been well documented in the archives of Australian Military history.
Kathryn’s late father served in Darwin during World War 2 and used to tell Kathryn and her sister stories …
The events of this book are not told in chronological order, but described as reflections on various aspects of life in the labour camps.
Primo Levi, a 24 year old Italian Jewish man, is arrested by Italy’s newly-arisen Fascist Republic. …
This book with a tantalising hook, is a summation of his decades-long research into Van Gogh’s death, which argues that the artist was murdered by Dr. Gachet, the semi-prominent homoeopathic doctor who treated his melancholia and collected ( sometimes selling)
This book, a magnificent, weighty feat of translation by celebrated author Daniel Mendelsohn brings the great epic, Homer’s Odyssey to vividly poetic new life. The author is known widely for his essays on classical literature and culture, gives us a …
Hannah Arendt’s lessons are for our times, in fact, for all times.
If you spend time on the net, you’ll no doubt be aware of Hannah Arendt’s famous image, that young, sad woman, cigarette in her hand, staring into the …
A superb spy thriller set against the Israel Iran conflict, David McCloskey’s latest novel, THE PERSIAN is a palpable, pulsating story that is timely and relevant.
From its shocking, breath-taking opening, to its startling finale, THE PERSIAN plunges the reader …