Robert Frantzeskos
Robert Frantzeskos is a former Readings St Kilda bookseller
Review — 26 Apr 2017
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
Paris, 1980. Detective Jacques Bayard is not familiar with the works of the influential literary critic and philosopher Roland Barthes when he enters his hospital room on a Monday afternoon…
Review — 27 Mar 2017
The Zero and the One by Ryan Ruby
The debut novel by Ryan Ruby might be called a ‘philosophical thriller’. What begins as a sentimental journey of a university friendship develops into a gothic, transgressive tale where the…
Review — 23 Oct 2016
The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler
Following the success of A Whole Life, and having been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize this year, Robert Seethaler’s The Tobacconist is an engaging piece of historical…
Review — 26 May 2016
Love Wins by Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell
In June of last year, rainbow filters glittered over our Facebook profiles as a sweeping piece of federal legislation was enacted in the United States which then reverberated across that…
Review — 29 Mar 2016
The Art of Reading by Damon Young
For many, the task of reading seems simple enough - indeed you have made it this far. What perhaps you didn’t know, is that by exercising an acute way of…