Gabrielle Williams
Gabrielle Williams was a bookseller at Readings Malvern, grants officer for the Readings Foundation, and manager of the Readings Prize. She was also the author of many books for young adults, including My Life as a Hashtag and It's Not You, It's Me.
Review — 25 Mar 2014
The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert
I’ve never considered the flute to be a particularly controversial instrument, but apparently it can be. Reading The Walk Home I was thrown, unexpectedly, into a world where joining a…
Review — 22 Sep 2013
Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel
David Finkel can write – and how. Thank You For Your Service is his second non-fiction book delving into the lives of soldiers who were on the front line in…
Review — 28 Jul 2013
His Stupid Boyhood by Peter Goldsworthy
Peter Goldsworthy has laid himself open for inspection – like one of his cadavers from medical school – in this memoir.
Starting with his first sexual inclination, at age four…
Review — 27 Aug 2013
Floodline by Kathryn Heyman
After reading the blurb for Floodline, I was worried I was in for something a little more lightweight than you’d expect from Kathryn Heyman: ‘The feisty, sexy and dynamic…
Review — 27 Mar 2013
Boy, Lost by Kristina Olsson
Bringing her journalistic skills to what is described on the cover as a ‘family memoir’, Kristina Olsson uses perfectly balanced prose to weave breathtaking beauty into this sad yarn.
As…
