creative non-fiction

September 18, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell

We are never closer to life than when we brush…

September 12, 2020

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place by Philip Marsden

Why do we react so strongly to certain places? Why…

September 10, 2020

BOOK REVIEW:Something Beautiful Happened - A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil by Yvette Manessis Corporon

Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family…

July 1, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: Phosphorescence by Julia Baird

The Blurb (from Goodreads): Over the last decade, we have…

June 8, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: Two Owls at Eton: A True Story by Jonathan Franklin

When Jonathan Franklin takes two baby tawny owls back to…

May 1, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: Daffodil: Biography of a Flower by Helen O'Neill

A beautifully illustrated, visually lush and intriguing book about the…

March 27, 2020

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Hanns & Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding

May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second Word War,…

March 8, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World by Clare Wright

For the ten years from 1902, when Australia’s suffrage campaigners…

March 4, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: The Joy of High Places by Patti Miller

A soaring memoir of longing, resilience and delight in the…

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