Joe Murray
Joe Murray is from Readings Kids
Review — 25 Sep 2023
Gunflower: Stories by Laura Jean McKay
Short story collections are a rare pleasure, a chance to glimpse an author’s fascinations and preoccupations across a series of vivid imaginings, each individual ‘blazing moment’ nonetheless contributing to a…
Review — 1 Sep 2023
The Catch: Australia’s Love Affair with Fishing by Anna Clark
Australia is a country that has always been quietly proud of its traditions, and for Anna Clark there is no tradition more Australian than fishing. Her newest book, The Catch…
Review — 1 Sep 2023
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
The Maniac is the story of the great inscrutable intelligences of our modern era. It traces a long and sordid path from the frenzied genius of our most revolutionary mathematicians…
Review — 31 Jul 2023
Thaw by Dennis Glover
At the dawn of the 20th century, Antarctica was a place of peril, where explorers braved hypothermia, isolation and death in search of knowledge and fame, long before science and…
Review — 24 Jul 2023
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
If you need to offload some suspiciously acquired jewellery while getting a good deal on a recliner in 1970s Harlem, Ray Carney’s your man. Or, at least, he used to…
Review — 3 Jul 2023
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
Early on in Many Things Under a Rock, author and marine biologist David Scheel describes a colleague’s first encounter with a huge and curious octopus, effortlessly conveying the enigmatic…
Review — 30 Jun 2023
The Art of Breaking Ice by Rachael Mead
Nel Law is many things: an ageing menopausal woman, a lonely homemaker, an artist – but what she always finds herself reduced to is the wife of famed polar explorer…
Review — 18 May 2023
We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis
Romance, aspirations and family ties collide in Will Kostakis’s brilliant new YA novel, We Could Be Something. It’s a vibrant and heartfelt story about the power, and limits, of…
Review — 20 Apr 2023
Owlish by Dorothy Tse & Natascha Bruce (trans.)
In a world not quite our own, in a city that is not quite Hong Kong, a middle-aged professor is falling in love with a doll who is not quite…
Review — 3 Mar 2023
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
In 2019, Jenny Odell renegotiated our understanding of attention with How to Do Nothing, invoking the perennial self-help bogeyman of social-media distraction to lure readers into a deftly researched…
