Kate McIntosh

Kate McIntosh is the manager of Readings Emporium

Review — 21 Apr 2024

Red River Road by Anna Downes

Katy’s sister Phoebe has vanished into thin air on a solo trip around Australia. Determined to find her when no one else can, Katy sets off in a van just…

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Review — 21 Apr 2024

All the Beautiful Things You Love by Jonathan Seidler

This is not your usual love story. Elly and Enzo break up in the first line of the first paragraph on the first page of the novel, and you know…

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Review — 26 Mar 2024

If You Run Out of Words by Felicita Sala

A child watches their parent talk all day, using their phone all day, constantly communicating in ways the little one simply cannot comprehend. Eventually that child asks, ‘Will you have…

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Review — 26 Mar 2024

Sanctuary by Garry Disher

Most of us lead law abiding lives. Sure, there’s the occasional speeding fine, or you went slightly outside the 5k limit during lockdown, or pinched a packet of lifesavers when…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

Outlaw Girls by Emily Gale & Nova Weetman

Ruby is a modern day hellraiser, a bored teenager with little direction in life and a chip on her shoulder. Kate is the sister of Australia’s most famous bushranger, determined…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

The Rumor Game by Thomas Mullen

Pearl Harbor has been attacked and America looks set to join her allies in the war in Europe. On the streets of Boston, far from the killing fields, there are…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft

Irena Rey is ‘Our Author’, a woman revered and adored across the globe for her brilliant novels, and her charismatic ways. No one adores her more than her tribe of…

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones

In the 1950s a dam was constructed in Far North Queensland. In the process, the town that had existed there previously was emptied and flooded, remaining beneath the water even…

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Review — 1 Feb 2024

Smoke & Mirrors by Barry Jonsberg

When your mum drinks too much, your father is dead, your younger brother only appears occasionally, you have no friends, and your grandmother is about to be diagnosed with a…

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Review — 25 Sep 2023

The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama & Louise Heal Kawai (trans.)

At first glance one might be forgiven for thinking this is a crime novel. It is not. There is a mystery, yes, and someone died, but the further you get…

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