LifestylePoetry review: Dear HeartDear Heart takes its title from a poem by Michele Leggott addressed to her dead mother and is a pointer to what makes Green's collection different from its predecessors.08 Apr 05:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The Exotic RissoleTanveer Ahmed has written a memoir that entertains but also gives you something to think about. <i>The Exotic Rissole</i> explores mixed cultural relations.05 Apr 05:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: A Perfectly Good ManLenny is "a perfectly unremarkable 20-year old who just happens to be in a wheelchair". He's there because of a rugby accident and he doesn't want to live any more. So he kills himself, in front of a parish priest.04 Apr 05:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: NarcopolisIf you were to write a story set in Bombay, as the poet Jeet Thayil prefers to call the city now known as Mumbai in his outstanding debut novel, you don't have to work too hard.22 Mar 04:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Out Of ItTumbling tresses, midnight-pool eyes, alabaster brow. None of these features in the debut novelist's publicity photo should be held against her.21 Mar 04:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Perlmann's Silence Those who are nervous about speaking in public usually have the perfect way out. They simply don't do it. 20 Mar 04:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Leaving AlexandriaThe person who is not religious reading this former believer's journey to a lack of faith can be tempted to ask: "What took you so long?"12 Mar 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The Day She Cradled MeIt would be hard to imagine a more downbeat heroine for an historical novel than Minnie Dean.08 Mar 08:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: England is Perfectly Still The memoir can be a difficult genre to deal with, for author and reader alike.08 Mar 08:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Letters of Frank SargesonThere are some 500 items in this fascinating selection of Frank Sargeson’s letters — a number that nevertheless represents only about a quarter of the more than 6000 which survive.08 Mar 08:00 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Waiting For Sunrise At first sight, Lysander Rief, standing on the corner of the Augustiner Strasse in 1913 Vienna, looks like a hero.28 Feb 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: It Chooses YouTo judge by online reviews, Californian arthouse film-maker Miranda July's movies are something you either love or hate. And it seems her writing is much the same.23 Feb 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Zona Sales pitch: 'I want to write a book that is a sort of summary of a wilfully ambiguous science fiction movie made by a Russian director more than 30 years ago.'22 Feb 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: In the Absence of HeroesRecently, while sitting in the airport lounge in Sydney waiting for a flight home, I glanced up from my hardcover book and surveyed the other travellers in my immediate vicinity.22 Feb 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Burning BrightIn this book are a dozen short stories that will take you only a couple of hours to read but far longer to forget. 08 Feb 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: Jack Holmes And His FriendEdmund White has spoken repeatedly of his crawling conviction as a boy and young man that being homosexual was “bad”.08 Feb 04:30 PM
LifestyleBook Review: The Year Of The Hare The Year Of The Hare, originally published in 1975, has gone on to sell millions of copies in 18 languages and as two feature films.25 Jan 04:00 PM
