Heroes Next Door
However you spent lockdown, there is a good chance you discovered a new lens through which to observe you patch. Siblings Hilde Hinton and Samuel... Read More
The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death & Faith and Sarah Krasnostein
The world spins ever faster on ever smaller dimes and we, with vertigo, watch in the bottom of a crucible, wondering when it will all... Read More
Infinite Splendours – Roiling turbulence
“I see far more in the countryside than charm. I see infinite splendours.” Reading the novel, one can actually feel the shape of the land,... Read More
STEM Stars
“Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life” – Rosalind Franklin, an overlooked female figure who helped uncover the structure of DNA. So why... Read More
The Song of the Crocodile
You can hear the music in this novel; it seems to sing off the page. Even a tin ear could make a tune from these... Read More
Opening Night
“It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night like softest music to attending ears!” — William Shakespeare... Read More
Sea of Dreamers – Homegrown Hobsons Bay authors
“We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.” – Neil Gaiman On seas of words we... Read More
The Women and the Girls
2020 and 2021 have been watershed moments; times of great change. The stunning scenes of Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo Movement have made us... Read More
You are what you read: Diversity in children’s books
Our world is forever changing and the books we share with our children need to reflect this. Books can be transformative and they can be... Read More
Counting our blessings: How to convey the lived experience to the lucky country
Alice Pung (One Hundred Days, Unpolished Gem) was born in Footscray a month after her parents Kuan and Keen arrived in Australia. Alice’s father, Kuan... Read More