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30 Apr, 2021 0 comments

‘The Space Between’ – The book every young woman should read

Content warning: This article discusses sexual assault. 'The Space Between: Chaos. Questions. Magic. Welcome to Your Twenties' by Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, about life and its hurdles in your twenties, is one of the...

14 Apr, 2021 0 comments

More insightful than inciteful — Review of Sarah Schulman’s ‘Conflict Is Not Abuse’

Sarah Schulman knows you won't agree with her -- at least not on everything. In the introduction to her 2016 book, Conflict Is Not Abuse, Schulman encourages th...

9 Apr, 2021 0 comments

Heave and change — Review of Helen Garner’s ‘Monkey Grip’

"It was early summer. And everything, as it always does, began to heave and change." Helen Garner's debut novel, Monkey Grip, has come a long way since its pub...

8 Apr, 2021 0 comments

I’ll Give You the Sun Review

This article contains spoilers for I'll Give You the Sun. It has been nearly seven years since Jandy Nelson published her award-winning novel I'll Give You t...

19 May, 2020 0 comments

What happens to The Chosen One after the end of the world? – Wayward Son Review

Four years after her first novel about Simon Snow, Rainbow Rowell released a new chapter to the tale of her Chosen One. Wayward Son came out in September of 2019, and the blurb described it as "a book for everyone who ever wo...

3 May, 2019 0 comments

Troll Hunting with Ginger Gorman

Ginger Gorman is a Canberra journalist with a multimedia career spanning over 16 years. After years of verbal abuse online in relation to her work, Ginger aimed to discover the truth about cyber hate and the people behind it...

22 Mar, 2018 0 comments

Book Review: Speaking Out, by Tara Moss

Published by HarperCollins Publishers in Australia, 2017. This non-fiction book by Australian/Canadian author, journalist and public speaker, Tara Moss,...

25 Apr, 2017 0 comments

Greek Cafés and Milk Bars of Australia – A Book Review.

It is 1942 and just after midnight in the sleepy NSW town of Gundagai and brothers Jack and Vic Castrission are locking up their café, the Niagara, when they hear a knock at the door. A group of smartly dressed men, who...

20 Apr, 2017 0 comments

Hannah Hart’s Buffering Review

"Oh, dang." - person after reading Buffering In stores! https://t.co/yamLUgG0TJ pic.twitter.com/BpHZjZqXzz — Hannah Hart (@harto) October 19, 2016 Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded is the...

15 Mar, 2017 0 comments

Dubliners: Book review

When I plucked Dubliners from a shelf in my local bookstore, I did so out of pure curiosity. Written in 1905 by Irish author James Joyce, Dubliners is a coll...