10 July 2015
GUT GASTRONOMY by Vicki Edgson & Adam Palmer: Revolutionise Your Eating To Create Great Health – Book Review
Gut Gastronomy promises a “life-changing strategy” of “improving your gut function in its entirety”.
Books – Page 16
10 July 2015
I SAW A MAN by Owen Sheers: An Intricately-Structured Psychodramatic Character Study – Book Review
Sheers’ novel sounds like a straight thriller (‘I Saw A Man Who Did Something Terrible’?), and yet this is actually an intricately-structured psychodramatic…
10 July 2015
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES AND OTHER LESSONS FROM THE CREMATORIUM by Caitlin Doughty – Book Review
Doughty’s five-years-in-the-writing autobiographical volume sounds confronting and is, to a point, and yet this is less some catalogue of necromantic ugliness…
23 June 2015
DEVIL’S ADVOCATES: THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and BLACK SUNDAY – Book Review
Marcus K. Harmes and Martyn Conterio (Footprint Books) 2015, 100pp/99pp
23 June 2015
GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS: The Call To Love Our Own Bodies from Emer O’Toole – Book Review
Emer O’Toole is a doctor, a feminist and an actor – aspects which all come together in her book Girls Will Be Girls , to examine how we perform gender in our…
23 June 2015
OFF THE MAP: LOST SPACES, INVISIBLE CITIES, FORGOTTEN ISLANDS, FERAL PLACES AND WHAT THEY TELL US ABOUT THE WORLD by Alastair Bonnett – Book Review
Bonnett, a Professor of Social Geography, here investigates places peculiar, transitory, controversial and sometimes pretty much uncharted, which is still…
23 June 2015
PANTHER by David Owen: Can You Control A Beast You Can’t See? – Book Review
Writer, teacher, poet and gaming specialist Owen’s first novel seems like a ‘Young Adult’ effort at heart, and yet there’s both a sophistication and a…
23 June 2015
WAKE: The Creepy and Supernatural Offering from Elizabeth Knox – Book Review
The Wellington-residing and fairly prolific Knox’s latest offering has its familiar aspects, and yet it’s nevertheless pretty damn creepy at first – until the…
1 June 2015
AN ORDINARY EPIDEMIC: A Heartening Story Of A Mother’s Love and The Desperate Need For Survival by Amanda Hickie – Book Review
In An Ordinary Epidemic , emerging writing talent Amanda Hickie tells the extraordinary tale of Sydneysider mother of two, Hannah, as she desperately tries to…
18 May 2015
WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC: A MEMOIR from Legendary Musician, Composer and Innovator Philip Glass – Book Review
Legendary musician, composer and innovator Glass’ slightly long-winded (well, he is 78) account of his life and times has a straightforward tone which sometimes…
13 May 2015
PANTHERS & THE MUSEUM OF FIRE: A Genuinely Exciting and Utterly Self-Aware Novella by Jen Craig – Book Review
As much as we like to think literature is ground-breaking, risk-taking and, above all, free from constraint, it is not. It would be utopian and false to suggest…
10 May 2015
ANOTHER LITTLE PIECE OF MY HEART: MY LIFE OF ROCK AND REVOLUTION IN THE ‘60S by Richard Goldstein – Book Review
Goldstein’s memoir of his experiences as a rock critic into the later ‘60s doesn’t delve at great length into his ‘50s childhood, nor his work as a cultural…