Joe Murray
Joe Murray is from Readings Kids
Review — 23 Oct 2023
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
Sometimes, a work of nonfiction feels like a magic trick. While novels can weave poignant, transcendent stories from little more than an author’s imagination, it is something entirely different, something…
Review — 23 Oct 2023
The Mantis by Kotaro Isaka & Sam Malissa (trans.)
Kabuto lives a double life: one as a loving father and dutiful husband, the other as a cold-blooded contract killer. Only one of those lives is terrifying – the other…
Review — 25 Sep 2023
Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr
What does it mean to reckon with Australia’s bloody history? For David Marr, that history came especially close to home when he discovered a white officer of the brutally violent…
Review — 25 Sep 2023
Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking by Tyson Yunkaporta
If you’re anything like me, you might struggle to get a grasp on Indigenous knowledge systems, and find it hard to fully understand how spiritual practice can coexist with scientific…
Review — 25 Sep 2023
Gunflower: Stories by Laura Jean McKay
Short story collections are a rare pleasure, a chance to glimpse an author’s fascinations and preoccupations across a series of vivid imaginings, each individual ‘blazing moment’ nonetheless contributing to a…
Review — 1 Sep 2023
The Catch: Australia’s Love Affair with Fishing by Anna Clark
Australia is a country that has always been quietly proud of its traditions, and for Anna Clark there is no tradition more Australian than fishing. Her newest book, The Catch…
Review — 1 Sep 2023
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
The Maniac is the story of the great inscrutable intelligences of our modern era. It traces a long and sordid path from the frenzied genius of our most revolutionary mathematicians…
Review — 31 Jul 2023
Thaw by Dennis Glover
At the dawn of the 20th century, Antarctica was a place of peril, where explorers braved hypothermia, isolation and death in search of knowledge and fame, long before science and…
Review — 24 Jul 2023
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
If you need to offload some suspiciously acquired jewellery while getting a good deal on a recliner in 1970s Harlem, Ray Carney’s your man. Or, at least, he used to…
Review — 3 Jul 2023
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
Early on in Many Things Under a Rock, author and marine biologist David Scheel describes a colleague’s first encounter with a huge and curious octopus, effortlessly conveying the enigmatic…
