Book review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

I was interested in this novel because I recently read Conn Iggulden’s Conqueror series, which tells the story of Genghis…

SPOILER review: Tension by E M Delafield

This is one of my occasional series where I share my thoughts on the whole of a book, so if…

China Room begins in a Punjabi village in the 1920s. Mehar is one of three young women who have just…

The Great Mistake is a novel based on the life and death of Andrew Haswell Green, the “Father of Greater…

Asha Ray has a bad time in high school – she’s clever but she doesn’t fit in socially, and feels…

This is the first of two books Charmian Clift wrote about her life in Greece with her husband, George Johnston,…

First Morrissey, now Barbara Pym. They say you should never meet your heroes, perhaps you don’t want to know their…

Is there no end to the achievements of Stacey Abrams? The lawyer, campaigner and politician’s voter outreach programme is widely…

I loved this book! It’s funny, clever and moving, with a seaside setting and a rich cast of characters. First…

The Performance has a wonderful premise. Three women are in a theatre in Melbourne, watching a performance of Samuel Beckett’s…