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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Prime Cut’ (Alan Carter, Fremantle Press)
Hopetoun WA: idyllic seaside location, mining boomtown, itinerant workers and a headless torso on the beach. Senior Constable Philip ‘Cato’ Kwong, former golden boy, has been banished to the Stock...
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Zoe Thurner on ‘Dress Rehearsal’ (Fremantle Press)
Zoe Thurner Drama teacher Zoe Thurner tells Amelia Vahtrick about her debut novel Dress Rehearsal (Fremantle Press). The story is framed by a Year 12 theatre production, which provides a lot of the...
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BOOK REVIEW: To the Highlands (Jon Doust, Fremantle Press)
What is a man and how does a boy become one? Jack Muir was searching for the answers to these questions in Boy on a Wire, the first book in Jon Doust’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age trilogy, set...
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BOOK REVIEW: Red Dirt Talking (Jacqueline Wright, Fremantle Press)
Jacqueline Wright won the TAG Hungerford Award for most promising unpublished manuscript in 2010 and Red Dirt Talking is the result. The main protagonist, Annie, is a 40-year-old woman embarking on a...
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BOOK REVIEW: Now Showing (Ron Elliott, Fremantle Press)
Over the years Perth-based screenwriter Ron Elliott has accumulated a drawer full of part-finished scripts or sketches for film or TV projects that haven’t come to fruition. Rather than letting them...
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BOOK REVIEW: Shimmer (Jennifer McBride & Lynda Nixon, Fremantle Press)
When I was asked if I wanted to review Shimmer, it was pitched to me as ‘a teenage genie from another planet is sent to earth …’ and I didn’t hear anything else because the word ‘yes’ had already come...
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BOOK REVIEW: Koombana Days (Annie Boyd, Fremantle Press)
A century ago, there weren’t many roads in Australia, and outside the main cities and the south-eastern states, what railways there were tended to run inland from ports rather than from town to town....
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BOOK REVIEW: Darcy Moon and the Deep-Fried Frogs (Catherine Carvell, illus by...
Darcy Moon has her own problems to deal with—her ‘embarrassing weirdo’ parents, fitting in at school and having enough money to buy Skippity Chips—without having to save the environment as well. But,...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Weaver Fish (Robert Edeson, Fremantle Press)
The Weaver Fish is fiendishly clever. It brings together so many threads it’s hard to know where to start. From hurricane-proof hats to a mysterious bird of prey that’s perhaps not what it seems, to a...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Break (Deb Fitzpatrick, Fremantle Press)
The Break is the first adult novel from West Australian author Deb Fitzpatrick, whose young-adult titles include 90 Packets of Instant Noodles and Have you Seen Ally Queen? It centres around two...
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