book editor, bibliophile + word nerd
I really wanted to love this book as much as the original but unfortunately it left me feeling a bit flat. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. I am a huge Jane Austen fan and have read hundreds of adaptations. Okay, maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but it feels like hundreds. I was ...
Sometimes when it comes to reading I join the party fashionably late. It has taken me a while to get around to reading Mateship With Birds but I think it has been well worth it and I am so glad I did. Last year, author Carrie Tiffany was the inaugural winner of The Stella Prize, a ...
When the United Kingdom is divided into four based on the four humours - sanguine, melancholic, choleric or phlegmatic – people are sent to live in the quarter where they are deemed to belong. Thomas Parry is one such child, taken from his parents in the middle of the night. What follows is his journey ...
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas has been reported as one of the most divisive and confronting Booker-longlisted novels in recent years. While it has already won a host of awards and received critical acclaim, this controversial and thought-provoking novel that places a magnifying glass over multicultural Australian society has made readers sweat their way through many uncomfortable scenes with mixed ...
A tongue-in-cheek take on the whole 50 Shades wave but much more fun and much better writing. This is a great introduction to Australian rural fiction with a twist of the erotic - 12 short stories with titles like Truck Wash and The Crutching. A hoot. Great to see all kinds of lovers featured ...
You think you know someone but you never really do. This is the premise of Paul Torday’s novel The Girl on the Landing. This is the first of Torday’s books that I have read, although I have been meaning to read Salmon Fishing in the Yemen since it came out in 2006 and received wide acclaim. I ...
Pemberley is just one of the many sequels that have been written to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and was penned by Emma Tennant in 1993, some 180 years after the original work. Any attempt at a Jane Austen sequel can be deemed very brave or very stupid, but as there are so many die-hard ...
I am an Australian freelance editor, proofreader and blogger with extensive experience working with books, magazines, newspapers, websites, social media and academic journals.
