Book Reviews

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Book review: Twitchers

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Diary of a Book Addict: For the sake of the children

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Diary of a Book Addict: What is normal?

Love, war and the birth of Impressionism

Book review: Stories of Futures Near and Far

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Diary of a Book Addict: South Australia’s best books of the 21st century

Praiseworthy makes history as Alexis Wright wins the 2024 Miles Franklin

Diary of a Book Addict: A journey to the edges of the world

Book review: The End and Everything Before It

Diary of a Book Addict: Divorce, desire and dystopia

Diary of a Book Addict: Knotty nuance and unending conflict

Book review: The Radio Hour

Book review: For Everything a Time

Diary of a Book Addict: Humanity in conflict, winning women and ‘magic’ pills

Book review: Shining Like the Sun

Diary of a Book Addict: Love, loss and art in big-city books

The ‘others’: Striving to find a steady footing on shaky ground

Book review: Always Will Be

Book review: To the River

Diary of a Book Addict: Hot summer reads

Diary of a Book Addict: Eight of the best from 2023

Diary of a Book Addict: New novels, menopause, The Fonz… and beyond

Book review: The Idealist

Book review: Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures

Diary of a Book Addict: Lives, and crimes, of the times

Book review: Endo Days

Diary of a Book Addict: Unpicking power and privilege

Diary of a Book Addict: Unpicking power and privilege

Book review: Missing Pieces

Book review: Mr Smith to You

Diary of a Book Addict: Artists and monsters

Diary of a Book Addict: Stories of love, loss and family

Diary of a Book Addict: Children lost – and found

Eight of the best books of 2022

Book review: Admissions

Book review: Last Call

Diary of a Bookseller: A gift for every reader

Book review: Bird Bones

Diary of a Bookseller: An act of love and fierce acceptance

Book review: After You Were Gone

Diary of a Bookseller: Stories that strike close to home

Diary of a Bookseller: From desire to self-discovery

Book review: Uncanny Angles

Diary of a Bookseller: Service with a smile, and rumblings below the surface

Book review: Blight Street

Book review: Holy Woman – A Divine Adventure

Diary of a Bookseller: Grand days and great challenges

Geraldine Brooks’ daring and disturbing new novel