Nick Weston seems to have an enviable life. He runs his own advertising company, owns a fabulous house in an upmarket area of San Francisco and has a gorgeous wife whom he loves more than anything. There’s just one small problem: his company will fold
It has been an interesting year for fans of the nineteenth century writer Henry James. The literary giant has put in an appearance in three novels – Colm Tóibín’s Booker Prize-nominated The Master, Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty –
Australian cook Bill Granger is the darling of the Sydney restaurant scene. He open his first café, Bill’s, twelve years ago and hasn’t looked back since. Earlier this month he opened his third Sydney restaurant and he is just about
Oscar Wilde said: “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction”. For Lucy Grealy, the former is true and the latter is possibly the reason why she was a writer at all. This IS an autobiography, but focuses
Birds of America is a collection of twelve short stories by Lorrie Moore. It is essentially a series of portraits of the disaffected, aimless and the emotionally insecure. The tragedies of Moores characters are that of the everyday the loss
All Shook Up is Catherine Daly’s debut novel. Once again Ireland has produced yet another ‘chick fic’ author – so how does she measure up? Maeve Larkin is an extremely busy, extremely harassed working mother. On the verge of finalising
Grace Tynan has it all – a successful career as an estate agent, a solid marriage to Ewan, two beautiful twin boys and a lovely house to live in. but one day life takes a turn for the different when an old woman brandishing a shotgun changes Grace’s life
Seven Types of Ambiguity is the third book from award-winning Australian writer Elliot Perlman. Published to critical acclaim in his native land, it has been compared with Jonathan Franzen’s successful and similarly wide-ranging The Corrections.
47-year-old May, married to Clem for 27 years with six sons, wakes up one morning to discover her husband’s secret activities have left her facing threats of eviction and poverty. As if her life wasn’t hectic enough – dealing with her eccentric
He has his detractors but this is probably Amis’ best book. It concerns the degenerate hedonism of an English film-maker trying to make it big in the Big Apple. He reels from one social blunder and pointless one-night stand to another in a haze of booze and drugs
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