Annie Condon
Annie Condon is from Readings Hawthorn
Review — 23 Jun 2013
The Hive by Gill Hornby
The hype around Gill Hornby’s The Hive has set the publishing world abuzz (pun intended). The novel is a social comedy that focuses on a year in the life of…
Review — 26 May 2013
Just Between Us
Female friendships are often stereotyped. There’s the saccharine BFF (Best Friends Forever) types, the pathological ‘Single White Female’ or the dysfunctional pull/push of the bully/doormat (think Rosalind Wiseman’s Queen Bees…
Review — 2 Apr 2013
The Great Pet Plan by Rebecca Johnson & Kyla May
Juliet is ten years old, and in her own words, ‘nearly a vet’. She’s watched her mother, an actual vet, at work and, along with her friend Chelsea, thinks it…
Review — 29 Apr 2013
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
Pandora is waiting at the airport for her older brother, Edison, when she averts her eyes from a morbidly obese man being wheeled into baggage claim by two flight attendants…
Review — 26 Mar 2013
The Secret Lives of Men by Georgia Blain
In this new collection of 13 stories, Georgia Blain explores the diverse motivations of her male characters. The ‘men’ include fathers, brothers, husbands, soon-to-be-ex-husbands, partners, ex-boyfriends and lovers. In ‘Escape’…
Review — 25 Sep 2012
Deep South edited by Ralph Crane & Danielle Wood
[[tasmania]]This beautifully presented short-story collection focuses on our island state, Tasmania, as the ‘Deep South’ of the title. The editors have included stories dating from 1869 to the present day…
Review — 25 Sep 2012
Summer Lies by Bernhard Schlink
[[bernard-schlink2]]As a bookseller, I’ve heard the occasional customer say they ‘don’t like short stories’. Some of the complaints run along the lines of ‘too short’, or ‘I wanted to know…