Non-Fiction
Why bookshops are good for you
Browsing in bookshops is good for our psychological health, making Love Your Bookshop Day all the more important.
Book review: We, Hominids by Frank Westerman, translated by Sam Garrett
Early bone hunters tell us what it means to be human.
Book review: Late Bloomer, Clem Bastow
A memoir that challenges stereotypes about Autism in mainstream media.
Publishing models for changed conditions
Which publishing models can thrive in these uneasy times? The answer might surprise.
Between the covers: what to read this month
Are you in need of literary balm and distraction?
Book review: Puff Piece, John Safran
Captain Sarcasmo digs deep into the murky world of big tobacco and the future of smoking.
The Novel Cure: How books can soothe what ails you
Reading can be a safe harbour and a good self-care remedy in these anxious times.
Book review: Two Afternoons in the Kabul Stadium, Tim Bonyhady
A visual history of 20th-century Afghanistan.
Hobart’s biennial literary festival returns
A (non-online) literary festival for all: adults, YA and kids.
Book review: Muddy People, Sara El Sayed, Black Inc
An intricate memoir that traverses the muddy divides between child and adult, tradition and change, self and other and identity…