Teddy Peak
Teddy Peak is a bookseller from Readings Carlton
Review — 27 Oct 2024
Murriyang: Song of Time by Stan Grant
Stan Grant needs no introduction. When he retired from the ABC in 2023 after a string of racial abuse, just months before the Voice to Parliament Referendum, he said, ‘Don’t…
Review — 27 Oct 2024
Black Convicts: How Slavery Shaped Australia by Santilla Chingaipe
The history of slavery in Australia is a history that has been largely silenced. In 2020, then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison went as far as to claim that ‘there was no…
Review — 23 Sep 2024
The Belburd by Nardi Simpson
The Belburd is a story of The Dreaming and of dreaming, of creation and of motherhood. Nardi Simpson weaves together two threads of experience: the story of Ginny, a blak…
Review — 25 Aug 2024
In the Margins by Gail Holmes
Literature has a way of transcending distance and generations, an ability to connect us to those with whom we have little else in common. Reading In the Margins, I…
Review — 29 Jul 2024
The Echoes by Evie Wyld
‘The Echoes’ refers to many things in this book: the name of a rural Australian town from the main character’s past; the ghost of her dead boyfriend in her apartment…
Review — 23 Jun 2024
Big Time by Jordan Prosser
In the dystopian, autocratic country of East Australia, the government controls all internet and media, borders have been closed, and a drug called ‘F’ proliferates – a drug that allegedly…
Review — 20 May 2024
How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix
How does a relationship fall apart? And how does it fall back together? These are the questions Myriam Lacroix poses in her darkly comedic lesbian love/hate novel. Each chapter throws…
Review — 25 Mar 2024
The Pyramid of Needs by Ernest Price
What do transgender identities, pyramid schemes and the climate crisis have in common? The answer is Ernest Price’s Pyramid of Needs. In his eclectic debut, Price introduces us to…
