Books Archive

I recently managed to tie down wordaphile Jess Santosa long enough to extract some brain juice perfection from her. Jess is the only Sydney national finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam to be held on December 1 at the Sydney Theatre. The …

The controversial and explosively popular 50 Shades of Grey trilogy by E L James is topping book charts in Australia and around the world. The saucy novel is the fastest selling paperback of all time in UK history outstripping Dan Brown’s The …

Richard Ford’s Canada is narrated by the now 66-year-old Dell, who describes events that occurred in 1960 when he was a cerebral 15-year-old and his life was catapulted from the ordinary to the extraordinary by the uncharacteristic and startlingly naive bank robbery …

Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and most recently, The Marriage Plot, spoke to a full house at the City Recital Hall in Sydney last Thursday night. He related some of his personal experiences that inspired …