Drawing on her personal experience at the Hague, Gretchen Shirm’s novel Out of the Woods confronts the issues of murder and displacement, cruelty and loss.
- PhD Creative Writing, School of Humanities, Adelaide University
A 2015 book by a psychologist who works with adult children of emotionally immature parents has taken off on social media, ‘validating’ its readers. But is it any good?
Kylie Mirmohamadi’s immersive post-marriage novel follows a woman’s midlife reawakening in the wake of her dominating artist husband’s death.
Adele Dumont’s affecting memoir, The Pulling, draws the reader into the secrecy, shame and impulses behind trichotilllomania, or compulsive hair-pulling.
Emily Perkins’ ‘intoxicating’ new novel unfolds in the wake of a husband’s corruption scandal – which threatens his wife’s carefully curated lifestyle brand and forces her to question everything.
Three debut Australian novels explore diverse territory: the recognisable real world of parental estrangement, and a dystopian near-future where it never stops raining.
The idea of healing benefits and emotional catharsis through reading is intuitively appealing. But does it work that way? Jane Turner Goldsmith finds answers in neuroscience, philosophy and more.
Nights of Plague is set on a fictional island in the early 20th century. Is it an allegory of empire’s fall; a contemplation on corruption and East-West tension or a reflection on pandemic life?
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