by Lynette Washington | Aug 3, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Edited by Zane Lovitt (Spineless Wonders) 2016, 197pp, RRP $27.99 Spineless Wonders are again proving themselves to be one of the most exciting and innovative publishers in Australia, and the Crime Scenes story collection is further evidence of this. For a publisher...
by Lynette Washington | Apr 4, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Mick Jackson (Faber) 2016, 240pp, RRP $27.99 Yuki Chan is a Japanese student who travels to the UK to unravel tragic family secrets. Ten years earlier her mother toured Brönte country and left behind a series of mysterious and enigmatic photos which Yuki sees as clues...
by Lynette Washington | Feb 20, 2016 | Books, Reviews
Jon Steiner (Spineless Wonders) 2016, 162pp, RRP $24.99 The stories in this collection range from the extremely brief (Gail in which Gail attempts to print some work and fails) to the lengthy (the eponymous The Last Wilkie’s in which Erin is sent to a remote town to...
by Lynette Washington | Oct 20, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury) 2015, 306pp, RRP $32.99 In The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood has conceived of a most dire and fantastical world in which economic collapse in the United States has led to a sinister corporation setting up a social experiment. Inside the...
by Dave Bradley | Jul 19, 2014 | Books, Reviews
John Waters (Constable & Robinson), 336pp, RRP $24.99 ‘Trash King’ Water’s latest tome is the result of his wild idea to hitchhike across America, from his home in his beloved Baltimore to his property in San Francisco, and while it’s written in his familiar,...
