Books News ‘Breasts and Eggs’: Mieko Kawakami’s mesmeric feminist salvo by Dan Shaw Breasts and Eggs (Pan Macmillan) is the debut English language novel from Japanese author, Mieko Kawakami. Already an award-winning author in her home country, the novel announces Kawakami on the…
News The Happy Pack Beach Burrito Company: part of The Happy Pack by Happy Since opening their flagship store in Bondi, Beach Burrito Company have spreading the love far and wide all over Australia. And by ‘the love,’ I mean burritos. Tasty, tasty burritos….
News The Happy Pack Pan MacMillan Australia: part of The Happy Pack by Happy If you’re a book lover, there’s a great chance you’ve read something published by the good folk at Pan MacMillan Australia. They’re one of the world’s largest and most well-renowned…
News The Happy Pack Artist in isolation? The Happy Pack is a home-delivered gift with your name on it by Happy The COVID-19 pandemic has left pretty well every industry disturbed, but the arts sector in particular is feeling a loss. On top of the total decimation of live events and…
Books News ‘Amnesty’: Aravind Adiga’s psychological thriller on the streets of Sydney by Dan Shaw Since bursting onto the literary scene with his incendiary debut, the Booker Prize-winning The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga’s career has been marked with strikingly original perspectives on life in his…
Books News Edward Snowden’s ‘Permanent Record’: an essential memoir for the digital age by Dan Shaw How much would you put on the line for your principles? Viewed through the lens of Edward Snowden’s experience in Permanent Record (Pan Macmillan), the reader can’t help but reflect…
Books News ‘The Mercies’: a story of love and persecution at the edge of the world by Dan Shaw Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Mercies is a tale of survival and the eventual disintegration of a community under threat from religious persecution. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Europe was…
