Julia Jackson
Julia Jackson is the assistant manager of Readings Carlton
Review — 25 Feb 2019
From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage by Judith Brett
Judith Brett’s latest offering, hot on the heels of her bestselling (and award-winning) biography of Alfred Deakin, is a tightly written history of Australia’s electoral system. Moreover, it reads like…
Review — 22 Oct 2018
The Dinosaur Artist by Paige Williams
Adapted and greatly expanded from her 2013 New Yorker article ‘Bones of Contention’, Paige Williams delves again, more deeply, into the heady and complex world of ‘commercial palaeontology’ and its…
Review — 27 Aug 2013
A Spy in the Archives by Sheila Fitzpatrick
A Spy in the Archives, which began life as an essay in the London Review of Books in 2010, is a memoir rich in history as much as detail…
Review — 22 Apr 2012
Skagboys by Irvine Welsh
1993 was the year in which Irvine Welsh was flung into the bestseller/cult realm with his debut, Trainspotting. Since then, he has continued to riff on ideas of masculinity…