Annie Condon
Annie Condon is from Readings Hawthorn
Review — 29 Feb 2016
The Light on the Water by Olga Lorenzo
The Light on the Water will be perfect for book groups – it explores many current issues and yet it is a page-turner. The novel opens with Anne Forster spending…
Review — 24 Jan 2016
The High Places by Fiona McFarlane
When asked ‘What do you think makes a good story?’ Fiona McFarlane replied, ‘The best stories take a leap into another life, and threaten to strand us there.’ After reading…
Review — 28 Apr 2014
The Strays by Emily Bitto
Emily Bitto’s debut novel, The Strays, is a compulsively readable story of the 1930s Australian art scene, parental narcissism and female friendship. The title refers to the community of…
Review — 26 Oct 2015
The Women’s Pages by Debra Adelaide
The Women’s Pages is a novel that pays homage to words, pages and books written by women and about women. The main character, Dove, nurses her ill mother and at…
Review — 24 Aug 2015
Last Day in the Dynamite Factory by Annah Faulkner
This uniquely titled novel is full of family mysteries, and the unburdening of long-held secrets. The main character, forty-eight year old Christopher Bright, appears to have the sort of life…
Review — 23 Jun 2015
Peripheral Vision by Paddy O'Reilly
A book of short stories is usually named after one of the stories, one that seems to sum up the overall feeling of the collection. This story then becomes the…
Review — 22 Mar 2015
The Good Greek Girl by Maria Katsonis
The subtitle of The Good Greek Girl, ‘from the highs of Harvard to the lows of the psych ward’, says it all: this is a brave memoir from a…
Review — 23 Feb 2015
Anchor Point by Alice Robinson
Anchor Point is a promising debut novel because of the quality of its young author’s writing. Alice Robinson is a local creative writing teacher, and her writing is lyrical and…
Review — 27 Jan 2015
Clade by James Bradley
James Bradley’s new novel has been eagerly awaited. The wait has been well worth it – Clade is the first book I’ve read in 2015 and I’m already wondering how…
Blog post — 16 Dec 2014
Five books that quietly awed me this year
Bookseller Annie Condon shares five books that left her quietly awed in 2014.
The Shock Of The Fall by Nathan Filer
The Shock Of The Fall, which won the…