Kelsey Oldham
Kelsey Oldham is a former Readings Hawthorn bookseller
Review — 22 Jul 2018
The Rapids by Sam Twyford-Moore
Sam Twyford-Moore’s The Rapids examines mania and bipolar disorder in art and popular culture. A series of interlinked essays peppered with references to film, literature, music and television, the book…
Review — 25 Feb 2018
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Originally published in Arabic in 2014, Iraqi author Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. And it does what it says on the packet: it’s…
Blog post — 16 Nov 2017
The best pop CDs of 2017
Every year our staff vote for their favourite books, albums, films and TV shows of the past 12 months. Here are our top 10 pop CDs of the year, voted…
Review — 22 Oct 2017
Border Districts by Gerald Murnane
If you’ve ever read Gerald Murnane before, you’ll have some idea of what to expect with Border Districts, his thirteenth book and, apparently, his final work of fiction. It’s…
Review — 24 Sep 2017
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
Spanning 70 years, Alan Hollinghurst’s long-awaited new novel begins with a group of friends at Oxford during World War II and follows the ensemble over the years and generations. The…
Review — 26 Jun 2017
No Way! Okay, Fine. by Brodie Lancaster
Brodie Lancaster’s first book is a memoir that fuses Lancaster’s love of pop culture and feminism to explore her quest for authentic identity and self-acceptance – even if the taboo…
Review — 29 May 2017
Adult Fantasy by Briohny Doyle
Briohny Doyle is a thirty-something millennial. The only daughter of a pair of middle-class, educated baby boomers, Doyle has a PhD but works as a greengrocer; she has a long-term…
Review — 26 Feb 2017
All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
All Our Wrong Todays is Elan Mastai’s debut novel. A screenwriter by trade (the 2013 indie What If, starring Daniel Radcliffe, was written by him), Mastai’s first novel ambitiously…