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…

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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…

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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…

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