Tristen Brudy
Tristen Brudy is from Readings Carlton
Review — 3 Mar 2023
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
It has almost been a decade since Eleanor Catton published her Booker Prize-winning, epic, historical, astrological magnum opus The Luminaries, and I have been waiting with bated breath ever…
Review — 24 Jan 2023
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm
The cliché says that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it’s hard to imagine erudite and prolific Janet Malcolm ever letting a photo do all the talking. In…
Review — 2 Nov 2022
A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibín
‘It all started with my balls.’ So opens Colm Tóibín’s latest: a collection of essays that are personal, political and poetic. Separated into three sections, part one of this collection…
Review — 6 Sep 2021
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.’ It has been almost 20 years since I first read that opening line of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and it still…
Review — 19 Sep 2022
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
‘The house in which we live has three wings. The west wing is where the Husband and I live. The east wing is where the children and their attending au…
Review — 30 Aug 2022
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
Memory is fallible. Cassandra (Cee) knows this. She also knows that her brother, Wayne, died in an accident when he was seven. She was 12 and looking after him at…
Review — 28 Jul 2022
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid is known for writing short novels with a big impact. The Reluctant Fundamentalist provided readers with a sympathetic Islamic fundamentalist in the wake of September 11. Exit West…
Review — 28 Jul 2022
Nimblefoot by Robert Drewe
When I first moved to Australia six years ago, I was warned that Aussies (and those from Melbourne in particular) were sports mad. Turns out, they always have been. Real-life…
Review — 30 Mar 2021
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood is known for – among other things – saying very clever things on the internet. The unnamed protagonist of her highly anticipated first novel seems to have the…
Review — 1 Aug 2021
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Ada is 16 years old and struggling to fit in. She’s lost her mother, Defne, and she can’t connect with her father, Kostas. He’s physically present but emotionally distant. One…
