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Reviewed by Pippa
A compelling account of a 6 month experiment of living without TV or digital media for 6 months. A regular columnist for the Weekend Australian, Maushart has a witty and erudite style, incorporating the latest digital media language into her prose with flair. Smart, insightful and very well resea... (continued)
Reviewed by Gillian, Berkelouw Books Mona Vale
Somewhere around the beginning of the twentieth century, Susan Cain argues, Americans changed from a "culture of character", where the ideal self was serious, disciplined and private, to a "culture of personality" where people began to focus more on how other people perceived them. This, in Cain'... (continued)
Reviewed by Sarah, Berkelouw Books, Mona Vale
Thirteen year old Conor is woken every night at seven minutes past midnight by a monster outside his bedroom window. Conor has been having the same nightmare every night since his mother started her treatments, but there's a twist - this monster is ancient and wild and has become a part of Conor'... (continued)
Reviewed by Sarah, Berkelouw Books, Mona Vale
This is a book about Australia and how the land was formed. It describes the land's transformation as animals and humans inhabit and adapt it to suit their needs and like Window by Jeannie Baker there is the same environmental message that there is a cost to development. In this book though the l... (continued)
Reviewed by Sarah, Berkelouw Books, Mona Vale
Little Mouse finds a delicious apple and decides to keep it a secret from his friends by burying it in the ground. A beautifully illustrated story aimed at 3-5 year olds, this book teaches us that it's far better to share amongst friends than keep things all to oneself. (continued)
Reviewed by Gillian, Berkelouw Books, Mona Vale
Opposite the title page of The Chemistry of Tears there is a list of 17 books under the heading "Also by Peter Carey". I've read 15 of them, usually falling on them greedily on the day of publication. In my opinion Carey writers two types of books - great ones and good ones. Parrot and Olivier in... (continued)
Reviewed by Gillian, Berkelouw Books, Mona Vale
Louise Hawson is an inspiring person who, in 2009-2010, produced a blog, that grew into an exhibition and finally blossomed into a beautiful book. Her project was to visit a new Sydney suburb every week for a year and to photograph the people, places and objects that interested her. Her particul... (continued)
Reviewed by Gillian, Berkelouw Books, Mona Vale
I finally picked up this handsome volume when I realised it was the basis for the new film Hugo, direct by the venerable Martin Scorsese. What a treat was in store! Set in a time between the world wars, the story describes Hugo Cabret's life hidden in the bowels of the Montparnasse railway stati... (continued)
Reviewed by Gillian, Berkelouw Books, Mona Vale
It's 1938 and Pat Donlon is filled with the conviction that he can paint in a wholly new and Australian way. He is contemptuous of local art schools, newly married, extremely poor and ready to risk rejection he asks an art patron for money. Humiliated he finds himself in the office of Arthur Lain... (continued)
Reviewed by Gillian, Berkelouw Books Mona Vale
I know of no other character in Australian fiction who has come so completely and plausibly into our lives as Edith Campbell Berry - the heroine of three Moorhouse novels written in the last 25 years. Journalist Annabel Crabb launched the third instalment in Edith's story dressed as Berry. In hi... (continued)
Reviewed by Berkelouw Newtown
“Scenes from a Provincial Life” is a collection of Coetzee’s three earlier works – Boyhood, Youth and Summer time. All are memoirs, though the later has been categorised as ‘fiction’ despite its no-less obvious references to the author himself. It begi... (continued)
Reviewed by Nicole Mansour, Berkelouw Newtown
English writer Alan Hollinghurst is often classified as two things: the Henry James of his time, and an acute chronicler of gay experience in London. His latest work, “The Stranger’s Child”, is his first since winning the Booker prize for “The Line of Beauty&rdquo... (continued)
Reviewed by George, Berkelouw Paddington
One of the better reviews I read about The Sisters Brothers (I think it was on the Guardian website) commented on the difficulty of making readers feel true empathy for the characters of a novel. And when your lead characters are two guns-for-hire - one a merciless psychopath, the other a temp... (continued)The Berkelouw family has traded in books for generations. Read about our family history.
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