On Saturday, March 18, an energetic crowd flocked to Words at Wagstaffe for a full day of conversations between some of Australia’s best-known journalists and public figures. This was the…
Melissa Roberts, who has co-edited a new book telling the stories of female reporters on the frontline of conflict, will be one of the speakers at a literary event to…
Two of Australia’s most experienced war correspondents will be in conversation at Gosford Regional Gallery on Wednesday, November 23 as part of the Words on the Waves Writers Festival author…
Central Coast book lovers are in for a treat with three author book events set to take place in the region during October. Local author, Andrew Kwong, will visit Kincumber…
Schools across the Central Coast have been getting into the spirit of Book Week with dress-up parades and other activities to celebrate Australian authors and illustrators and the joy of…
ROGUES: TRUE STORIES OF GRIFTERS, KILLER, REBELS AND CROOKSAuthor: Patrick Radden KeefePublisher: Picador I previously wrote a review for Patrick Radden Keefe’s book, Empire of Pain, about the Sakler family’s…
Author: Sarah PennerPublisher: Affirm Press Nella is an apothecary In London 1791, just as her mother was. Nella’s mother dispensed tonics, oils and elixirs to help women in all that…
Author: Peter S Goodman – Publisher: Custom House – I heard about this book while listening to ABC radio. Peter S. Goodman is a global economics correspondent at the New…
Central Coast author, Laura Maya, has spent 20 years wandering slowly through almost 60 countries after setting off from her Wyoming home at the age of 21. She has just…
Author: Richard Osman – Publisher: Penguin – Special offer this week – a two for one review! I purchased these books as a pair (looks like a third one will…
Author: Richard Powers – Publisher: Penguin – From the author of Overstory (previously reviewed) comes a story about Theo, a widower who is raising his son Robin (Robbie). Theo is…
Author: John le Carre – Publisher: Peguin – Published posthumously, this is the 26th novel from John le Carre, a former British Intelligence officer who became a world renowned author….
Author: Louise ErdrichPublisher: Corsair Tookie is an Ojibwe woman, living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a self-described “ugly woman”, inside and out who enjoyed lying. She has also just gotten…
Author: Elizabeth Strout – Publisher: Penguin – I have read a couple books by Elizabeth Strout, namely Olive Kitteridge and Olive, Again, both of which I really liked. One book…
Author: Ruth Ozeki Publisher: Text Publishing This is a big book! And when I say big, I mean big because it is over 500 pages. I mean big in the…
Author: Liane Moriarty – Publisher: Macmillan Australia – Stan and Joy Delaney have been married for almost 50 years. They worked together running a tennis school and raising their four…
Authors: Heather Heying and Bret WinsteinPublisher: Swift Press As you can tell from my reading list, fiction is my preferred genre, however there are times I like to dabble in…
Author: Maris LawyerPublisher: Hub City Press The Blue Line Down is a book I chose after seeing it pop up on Kirkus Reviews (one of the sites I look at…
Author: Sally RooneyPublisher: Faber Sally Rooney wrote the very popular Normal People, which was less popular with me. I didn’t like how Marianne, the female protagonist, who was supposed to…
Author: Robert Whiting – Publisher: Stone Bridge Press – I have never been to Japan, but it is the one place I would love to go. I find the culture…