Joe Rubbo
Joe Rubbo is the managing director of Readings
Review — 11 Feb 2014
& Sons
David Gilbert’s second novel, & Sons, begins with a funeral. Charlie Topping, father of the book’s narrator Phillip Topping, has died. New York’s elite have turned out to witness…
Review — 26 Sep 2013
Eyrie by Tim Winton
Tom Keely, the hero of Tim Winton’s latest novel, is a fallen man. We meet him after a night ‘getting off his chops on the fruit of the Barossa’ and…
Review — 29 Jun 2013
American Dream Machine by Matthew Specktor
At the beginning of Matthew Specktor’s second novel, American Dream Machine, a young Beau Rosenwald is given a copy of Coriolanus and some parting words of advice from his…