Stasi Stealth

The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope is not literature, but it makes a convincing … More

Cradle Mountain Dreaming

PART ONE KINDRED: A Cradle Mountain Love Story by Kate Legge is the engaging biographical story of Gustav Weindorfer and … More

Hilary Mantel’s epic tome (first in a trilogy) is fictionalised biography of Thomas Cromwell and history of the early Tudor … More

The Sea, a novel by John Banville, is disappointing and full of wordy affectation. Archaic and obscure words are sprinkled … More

Queensland is not a cultural grey area. Thanks to the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane and the Asia-Pacific Triennial … More

Alex Miller’s novel, set in the 1920s, traces the momentous choices facing Emily Stanton, as she moves between Melbourne, Paris, … More

The Gallery of Notional & Non Art (GONNA) in Kookynie is finally opening, with the launch of a new exhibition … More

‘LAND: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World’ Simon Winchester is a prolific writer (33 listed in this, … More

Ben Mezrich’s racy story is sub-titled ‘The Rise of the Oligarchs and the Greatest Wealth in History’*. In very short … More

Well, book fairies do, at least. Recently I was sitting inside at a table looking out the front window of … More