Tye Cattanach

Tye Cattanach is former bookseller at Readings Carlton

Review — 30 Jan 2023

A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno

Margaret Bryce is dead. Since her death in 2014, she has spent her time watching over the lives of her two daughters: Eva in Madrid and Rachel in Melbourne. She…

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Review — 1 Nov 2022

Tiny Uncertain Miracles by Michelle Johnston

Michelle Johnston is an emergency physician and an author, whose author profile online ends with the line: ‘she is occupied searching for the beauty and awe in an often-brutal reality.’…

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Review — 30 Aug 2022

Stone Blind: Medusa’s Story by Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes possesses a marvellous gift for breathing vibrant new life into the oldest of stories. Her novel A Thousand Ships (which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize in 2020)…

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Review — 19 Sep 2022

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

Anyone familiar with the work of Celeste Ng knows to expect complex and heartfelt family stories cleverly intertwined with thought-provoking commentary about race and socio-economic differences. The premise for Our

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Review — 30 Aug 2022

Wildflowers by Peggy Frew

Sisters. They can be the strongest of allies, the fiercest of enemies. In her latest novel, Wildflowers, Peggy Frew delves, with startlingly precise detail, deep into the fraught history…

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Review — 28 Jul 2022

Marlo by Jay Carmichael

Jay Carmichael made a considerable impression with his debut Ironbark (a finalist for the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award), so it was with great anticipation that I welcomed reviewing…

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Review — 30 May 2022

Bad Art Mother by Edwina Preston

Veda Gray is a poet. She is also a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, and each of these other roles chafe against her desire to free…

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Review — 28 Apr 2022

People Person by Candice Carty-Williams

Imagine your wayward, largely absent father showing up one fine day offering to take you and your younger brother for ice cream. Along the way, you stop at various unknown…

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Review — 26 Apr 2022

Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A.F. Steadman

‘Unicorns don’t belong in fairy tales, they belong in nightmares.’

They also need to be hatched. They can then only be tamed by the human who hatches them. Skandar has…

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Review — 30 May 2022

Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo

Closing the coveron the final page ofLisa Taddeo’s razor-sharpcollection of shortstories, Ghost Lover, I wasreminded of a line fromthe Joy Williams song,‘What a Good WomanDoes’: ‘Everyone’swounded, nobody’s won …’…

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