What we're reading
What we're reading: Bennett, Honey & Que Mai
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Chris Gordon is reading The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
This week I have been transported to jungles, to muddy fields, to bomb shelters, and to straw bedding. I’ve been led by grandmother Hương’s hand through the recent history of Vietnam, through four generations of grief, and I’m finding the imagery…
What we're reading: Ireland, Marney & Majumdar
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Tye Cattanach is reading Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
I usually avoid Zombie novels, or Zombie related anything actually. I find them utterly terrifying. I listened to the Zombies, Run! phone app for five whole minutes a few years back and I am still having nightmares. Nothing like a pandemic to make you…
What we're reading: Schweblin, Daylight & Fannin
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Chris Gordon is reading The Weight of Love by Hilary Fannin
One of my friends gave me a new novel, The Weight of Love by Irish author Hilary Fannin to read during these tough times. She said, this is just for fun … but while I enjoyed reading it very much it is…
What we're reading: Mildenhall, Mantel & Godwin
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Tye Cattanach is reading When Rain Turns to Snow by Jane Godwin
When Rain Turns to Snow might just be the most original middle grade novel I have ever read. A premise unlike any other that I can recall, this intriguing mystery introduces an unlikely – but somehow entirely believable – cast of…
What we're reading: Young, Bearman & Donnelly
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Nina Kenwood is reading Loner by Georgina Young (available August)
Loner is the winner of the 2019 Text Prize, and it sits right at the intersection of upper YA/adult fiction – it’s Daria meets Simmone Howell with a sprinkling of Sally Rooney. A slice-of-life kind of novel, Loner follows its main character, twenty-year-old…
What we're reading: Ng, Sittenfeld & Brett
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Mark Rubbo is reading The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future by Judith Brett
I’ve just read The Coal Curse, the new Quarterly Essay from Judith Brett. This is a terrific analysis of Australia’s post war economy and of the adverse impact of the resources industry – the fossil fuel industry…
What we're reading: Tangey, Huntley & Bennett
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Tye Cattanach is reading The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Vanishing Half is Brit Bennett’s second novel and, like its predecessor The Mothers, does not disappoint. This cleverly constructed novel intrigues the reader from the very first page, drawing us into to its slowly unfolding story of family drama, fraught sibling…
What we're reading: Paull, Robinson & Li
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Chris Somerville is reading Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li’s short collection of essays blends her interests in reading and writing with memoir. The book moves easily between discussions of, say, the short stories of Irish writer William Trevor, to her time…
What we're reading: Perret, Wright & Mildenhall
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Chris Gordon is reading The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall (available September)
I was kept wide awake last night because of bloody Kate Mildenhall’s forthcoming novel, The Mother Fault. Set in Australia in the near (but please god, let it not be so) future, this novel is a complete twist-in-your-gut kind of…
What we're reading: Lindgren, Bonney & Neeme
Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.
Tye Cattanach is reading The End of the World Is Bigger than Love by Davina Bell
Davina Bell has delivered a beautifully imagined, magical new fairy tale that exists in the same realm of sophisticated magical realism that brings to mind the extraordinary skill of writers who excel in the genre, the likes…
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