Anaya Latter
Anaya Latter is a former Readings St Kilda bookseller
Review — 24 Sep 2017
Friend of My Youth by Amit Chaudhuri
This loving, gentle book evokes the chaotic colours and sounds of Bombay through the eyes of an expatriate writer, returning to his childhood home. Weaving through time at an eddying…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
The Destroyers by Christopher Bollen
The Destroyers is a fast-paced, thrilling and engrossing holiday read. Sentences are thick with descriptors; the tight prose is rich with apt summations: ‘The imagination is a wild dog, it…
Review — 29 May 2017
Woman of Substances by Jenny Valentish
Jenny Valentish presents a raw, but relatable, account of her encounter with addiction. Woman of Substances is eminently readable, honest and revealing, not just about Valentish’s personal life and traumatic…
Review — 26 Apr 2017
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
In The Pleasures of Leisure, Robert Dessaix extols the virtues of doing less, with compelling insight and humour. He weaves an argument that we’ve lost the capacity to enjoy…
Review — 22 Aug 2016
Bright, Precious Days by Jay McInerney
Occasionally a slight snobbery emerges from working in a bookshop. With all the books out there, not all are equally worthy of our time. Is every book amazing? Life changing…
Review — 29 Mar 2016
The Media and the Massacre by Sonya Voumard
In The Media and the Massacre: Port Arthur 1996–2016 journalist Sonya Voumard examines the fallout from the 2009 publication of best-selling book Born or Bred? Martin Bryant: Making of a…
Review — 25 Apr 2016
The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver’s latest novel articulates a plausible but depressing near-future that plays on the fears of the middle class and upwardly mobile. The Mandibles: 2029–2047 traces the lives of three…
Review — 26 Oct 2015
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
Early on in Numero Zero, Umberto Eco’s protagonist surmises, ‘If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything…