Australian-Born Queen

Hear ye, your Royal Reporter is on the job again. No, we’re not talking about an Australian Queen. You would … More

Bordeaux and Beyond

Overseas travel is back on Aussie agendas, ratcheting up carbon footprints (or indeed wingprints), particularly those of us who headed … More

On a recent pilgrimage to the Good ‘Ol U.S. of A, while strolling along the main drag of Palm Springs … More

Tom Keneally’s latest historical novel imagines the extraordinary life of John Mitchel, a celebrated Irish rebel during the Great Famine … More

By Johann Hari, subtitled ‘Why You Can’t Pay Attention’, this book takes us on a personal three year voyage of … More

Well, who knew: the Christmas Tree is like Volkswagen – invented by the Germans and then exported to the world. … More

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

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