Top 10: Books About Marriage

The novel I’m writing, the first in a series tentatively titled Monkey See, centres on the lives of a couple who’ve been married…

20 Favourite Books from my 20s

My 20s were perhaps the most exciting reading period of my life. When they began I was studying literature at university, including two…

One of the title characters in my novel Whiskey and Charlie is in a coma. (Don’t panic – that’s not a spoiler – it…

This month I have spent much of my usual reading time working on getting The Ark ready for publication, but I’ve still managed to chew…

In 1929, Hungarian writer and poet Frigyes Karinthy wrote a short story called ‘Chains’ in which he coined the phrase six degrees of separation….

December was a bit hit-and-miss for me in the reading department, with some enjoyable reads but without anything that really knocked my socks…

I’ve just started reading Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins and it is my favourite kind of book – an analysis of an ordinary family’s…

Being stranded on a desert island I’d definitely want to have a few of my all-time faves with me. But given that I’d…

Welcome to… (drum roll)…Friday Faves – in which, each week, someone bookish will share one of their all-time favourite books. And to get…

Last year I was invited by Westerly to write their annual fiction review. New Australian books would be delivered to me, absolutely pristine,…