Wandering the world

I was fortunate enough to meet Professor Chelsea Watego, author of Another day in the colony, at a reconciliation symposium I attend in Cairns in March 2025 as part of my work on the Australian government's mental health in education initiative. Professor Watego gave an insightful and unapologetic presentation at the symposium and I eagerly lined up afterwards to buy her book and have it signed. The book is not an easy journey for a non-indigenous reader, but it's a powerful

We need new stories was recommended to me by a colleague and I was sufficiently intrigued by her recommendation to buy my own copy of the book and dive into it. We need new stories is written by Sudanese-born British journalist, Nesrine Malik, who writes for The Guardian. Malik tackles old frames of reference by exploring six toxic myths: gender equality, political correctness, free speech, identity politics, virtuous origin, and the reliable narrator. These myths were selec

I picked up a copy of Maiden voyages from this super bookshop I discovered, The Book Grocer, on a work trip to Melbourne. The book appealed to the social historian in me. I was keen to read about women's experiences on board ocean liners travelling between Europe and North America in the first half of the twentieth century. Author Sian Evans has a personal interest in the stories she writes about in Maiden voyages: Her great-great uncle was the Cunard Chief Officer on the Aqu

It's been three years since the last Christian White novel was published so I was keen to read The ledge when I finally got my hands on a copy. I've already made a Christian White appreciation post , to give my thoughts on this masterful storyteller's previous three books. It's hard to review his books as their power lies in part in their mind-blowing (but entirely believable) twists and there's no way as a reviewer I would want to spoil the experience. White's fourth outing