George Delaney
George Delaney is a former Readings Carlton bookseller
Review — 26 Mar 2018
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia edited by Anita Heiss
This brilliant collection of short memoir from Indigenous writers highlights an enormous diversity in the life stories of Aboriginal people in Australia, from those who grew up in middle-class suburbia…
Review — 25 Feb 2018
Afterglow by Eileen Myles
Afterglow is the ‘memoir’ of Eileen Myles’ dog Rosie, a pitbull-cross who figures in Myles’ earlier work, particularly in sections of Inferno, where the poet describes halcyon months spent…
Blog post — 29 Nov 2017
Five books I escaped into this past year
Carlton bookseller George Delaney shares five books escaped into during 2017.
Cool For You by Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles’s third autobiographical novel has been out of print for a while…
Review — 28 Jan 2018
Savages: The Wedding by Sabri Louatah
Savages: The Wedding is the first instalment in Sabri Louatah’s Saint-Etienne Quartet, a cycle of political dramas centring on an Algerian family in that region of central France. The novel…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
Half Wild by Pip Smith
In her first novel, Pip Smith imaginatively recreates the life of Eugenia Falleni, a female-to-male transgender person who captivated Sydney in 1920 when Eugenia, living as Harry Crawford, was arrested…
Review — 26 Apr 2017
Cannily, Cannily by Simon French
Simon French adapts the classic plot of the ‘blow-in’, the stranger in a small town, and lets us see it from the other side. Trevor Huon struggles to fit into…
Review — 29 May 2017
No More Boats by Felicity Castagna
No More Boats follows two previous works of fiction by Australian author Felicity Castagna: a collection of short stories and a YA novel, which won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award…
Review — 26 Apr 2017
How to Bee by Bren MacDibble
Meet tough, sassy Peony, an almost-ten-year-old farm worker in the Goulburn Valley of the near future. Peony can’t wait to be promoted to the role of ‘bee’ – reserved for…
Review — 27 Mar 2017
Black Cats and Butlers by Janine Beacham
Twelve year old Rose Raventhorpe is compelled to investigate a string of murdered butlers after the death of her own beloved butler, Argyle. Set in a fictional imagining of York…
Review — 26 Apr 2017
House of Names by Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín’s new novel revisits Aeschylus’ Oresteia linked trilogy of plays, settling deep inside the story of Clytemnestra’s revenge on her husband Agamemnon after he returns to Argos from the…