About the Book: Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton’s sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. … Continue reading Cloudstreet by Tim Winton| Theresa Smith Writes
I was particularly keen to read Left Behind by Martine Kropkowski as it’s set on my doorstep… on K’gari (prev. Fraser Island)*. I’ve only visited the resort on the eastern side of the island in recent years but my step-grandmother owned a couple of huts at a place called Yidney Rocks on the western side Continue Reading The post Book review: Left Behind by Martine Kropkowski appeared first on Debbish.| Debbish
About the Book: Mitchell is a brilliant biologist, committed to the environment and the growing global antinatalist movement. For one month each year he lives with his colleague Frances in a utopia…| Theresa Smith Writes
Introduced by Susan Wyndham Published in HEAT 21 – Giramondo Publishing Previously unpublished, The Last Days was discovered by Susan Wyndham among Elizabeth Harrower’s papers in the Na…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Van Diemen’s Land, 1839. A young woman of means arrives in Hobart, with a young boy in her care. Leasing an old cottage next to an abandoned vineyard, Caroline Douglas must na…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Internationally acclaimed for her five brilliant novels, Elizabeth Harrower is also the author of a small body of short fiction. A Few Days in the Country brings together …| Theresa Smith Writes
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Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan was a mind-blowing read for me. As usual Jordan’s writing is amazing. I read her debut novel Addition after commencing writing-related courses and it was the first time I became conscious of prose and I marvelled at her genius. I felt the same way years later when I read The Fragments. Continue Reading The post Book review: Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan appeared first on Debbish.| Debbish
The Long Prospect is Elizabeth Harrower’s second novel, published in 1958. It is set in a fictional town called Ballowra, which is loosely based on Newcastle. I didn’t get quite the sam…| Theresa Smith Writes
Down in the City is Elizabeth Harrower’s first novel, published in 1957. It tells the story of Esther Prescott, a sheltered woman who has grown up wealthy and motherless, who marries a man af…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Charlie, a prime-time radio producer in her early thirties, has always had a big group of friends – until she left her husband, and they all sided with him. Now she finds herself fl…| Theresa Smith Writes
Vera and Thea are mother and daughter. Vera writes for the internet: she constructs identities and scenarios for brands to cater to the ideal consumer. Yet she also consumes the offerings of the on…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Former London police officer Rose Campbell has been estranged from her daughter, Lou, for almost a decade. But when Lou disappears from a remote Western Australian beach, and the po…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris and Floyd are out of work, money and friends. When they hear that a bounty has bee…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: ‘Lonely mouth … It’s a Japanese expression. It means, like, you feel like you want to eat something, but you don’t know what it is. You’re looking for …| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Broome 2023: when Saskia’s free-spirited mother leaves her a caravan in her will, it doesn’t make sense. Saskia is a schoolteacher, tied to plans and schedules, even if they are beg…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die. Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their famili…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: WINNER OF THE 2025 MUD LITERARY PRIZE Missing in every sense of the word, a man walks into the landscape and doesn’t stop. In all weather and across all kinds of terrain, Ingv…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: 1918, Belowla. As the Great War grinds to an end, Adelaide Roberts accompanies her father to a rugged island off the south coast of New South Wales. While loss and deprivation …| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: WINNER OF THE READINGS NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION PRIZE Mary Anne is painfully aware that she’s not a good wife and not a good mother, and is slowly realising that she no longer w…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researche…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: What would you do if you found out you’d been raising another couple’s child – and they’ve been raising yours? Fourteen years ago, Kelsey and Raf Maccioni le…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Giselle escapes to the north Yorkshire village of Hollydale, she doesn’t give much thought to what she might find there. She’s more concerned with what she’s leavin…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Her family’s story made Henry Lawson famous. But was it his story to tell? Fact and fiction meld into one in this stirring family saga set against shifting landscapes and pivo…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: When Caitlin inherits a significant sum of money on her fortieth birthday, she decides to break the habits of a lifetime and throw caution to the winds. She’s about to tell he…| Theresa Smith Writes
About the Book: Lucy is running from what she’s done – and what someone did to her. There’s only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister’s desolate cli…| Theresa Smith Writes
Mark Smith’s first novel for adults is both a psychological thriller and an exploration of a shocking moral dilemma.| Newtown Review of Books
“But the older you get, the less linear the memories, and the more everything seems to circle back to something else.” Liane Moriarty’s novel, Here One Moment, explores the afterm…| His Futile Preoccupations .....
“But character is an unstable element; character was prone to show itself different from day to day.” Jessica Anderson’s novel An Ordinary Lunacy is an examination of the murky relationship between the Sydney-based, stuffy, successful barrister David Byfield and a … Continue reading →| His Futile Preoccupations …..
